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• Without sensibility no object would be given to us, without understanding no object would be thought.
  Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind....
• Mathematics deals exclusively with the relations of concepts to each other without consideration of their relation to experience.
  -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)...
• Mathematics deals exclusively with the relations of concepts to each other without consideration of their relation to experience.
  -- Albert Einstei...
• We wish to incorporate into the machine -- in the form of circuits -- only such logical concepts as are either necessary to have a complete system or highly convenient because of the frequency with which they occur and the influence they exert in the relevant mathematical situations.
  -- Burks, Goldstine, and von Neumann (1946) -- (from "Computer Structure...
• Special AI Seminar (abstract) It has been widely recognized that AI programs require expert knowledge in order to perform well in complex domains.
  But knowledge alone is not sufficient for some applicatio...
• The only justification for our concepts and systems of concepts is that they serve to represent the complex of our experience
  beyond this they have not legitimacy. -- Einstein....
• There are certain universal ideas and concepts common to all intelligent life.
  This device [the universal translator] instantaneously compares the frequency of brain wave patterns, selects those ideas and concepts it recognizes, and then provides the necessary grammar....
• The only justification for our concepts and systems of concepts is that they serve to represent the complex of our experience
  beyond this they have not legitimacy. -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)...
• Sometimes imagination is a more valuable asset than experience.
  People who lack experience are free to imagine what is possible and thus can approach a task without constraints of established habits and attitudes....