Cognition Quotes

• Industrial Society is not merely one containing 'industry,' large-scale productive units capable of supplying man's material needs in a way which can eliminate poverty: it is also a society in which knowledge plays a part wholly different from that which it played in earlier social forms, and which indeed possesses a quite different type of knowledge. Modern science is inconceivable outside an industrial society: but modern industrial society is equally inconceivable without modern science. Roughly, science is the mode of cognition of industrial society, and industry is the ecology of science.

  

  Ernest Gellner
  • Men
  • Different
  • Poverty

• We are not talking about a new cognition in relation to abstract art, rather a new area of cognition.

  

  Asger Jorn
  • Art
  • Talking
  • Cognition

• Three key humanist virtues are courage, cognition, and caring - not dependence, ignorance, or insensitivity to the needs of others.

  

  Paul Kurtz
  • Courage
  • Caring
  • Humanist

• Cognition requires going beyond the information given, to make bets and therefore to risk errors.

  

  Gerd Gigerenzer
  • Information
  • Therefore
  • Cognition

• The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.

  

  Elliot W. Eisner
  • Language
  • Limits
  • Cognition

• Once it is recognized that productive thinking in any area of cognition is perceptual thinking, the central function of art in general education will become evident.

  

  Rudolf Arnheim
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Function

• According to EXTENDED, the actual local operations that realize certain forms of human cognizing include inextricable tangles of feedback, feed-forward, and feed-around loops: loops that promiscuously criss-cross the boundaries of brain, body, and world. The local mechanisms of mind, if this is correct, are not all in the head. Cognition leaks out into body and world.

  

  Andy Clark
  • Mind
  • Feedback
  • Cognition

• While, on the one hand, the end of scientific investigation is the discovery of laws, on the other, science will have reached its highest goal when it shall have reduced ultimate laws to one or two, the necessity of which lies outside the sphere of our cognition. These ultimate laws-in the domain of physical science at least-will be the dynamical laws of the relations of matter to number, space, and time. The ultimate data will be number, matter, space, and time themselves. When these relations shall be known, all physical phenomena will be a branch of pure mathematics.

  

  William Mitchinson Hicks
  • Science
  • Lying
  • Mathematics