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" It often happens that after being hard at work, and having arrived at results that are perfectly clear and satisfactory to myself, when I try to express them in language I feel that I must begin by putting myself upon quite another intellectual plane.... "
Nature - Page 29
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Nature, Volume 36

Sir Norman Lockyer - 1887 - 776 pages
...perfectly clear and satisfactory to myself, when I try to express them in language I feel that I must begin by putting myself upon quite another intellectual...in seeking for appropriate words and phrases, and ят conscious, when required to speak on a sudden, of being often very obscure through mere verbal...
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Thinking and Learning to Think

Nathan Christ Schaeffer - 1900 - 360 pages
...translate my thoughts into a language that does not run evenly with them. I therefore waste a great deal of time in seeking for appropriate words and...when required to speak on a sudden, of being often obscure through mere verbal maladroitness, and not through want of clearness of perception. This is...
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Thinking and Learning to Think

Nathan Christ Schaeffer - 1900 - 360 pages
...when I try to express them in language I feel that I must begin by putting myself on quite a different intellectual plane ; I have to translate my thoughts into a language that does not run evenly with them. I therefore waste a great deal of time in seeking for appropriate words and phrases,...
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Scientific Genius: A Psychology of Science

Dean Keith Simonton - 1988 - 242 pages
...perfectly clear and satisfactory to myself, when I try to express them in language I feel that I must begin by putting myself upon quite another intellectual...maladroitness, and not through want of clearness of perception. That is one of the small annoyances of my life. (p. 69) Although Galton did not say so, it seems likely...
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Greatness: Who Makes History and why

Dean Keith Simonton - 1994 - 518 pages
...perfectly clear and satisfactory to myself, when I try to express them in language I feel that I must begin by putting myself upon quite another intellectual...maladroitness, and not through want of clearness of perception. That is one of the small annoyances of my life. By relying on visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and even...
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Origins of Genius: Darwinian Perspectives on Creativity

Dean Keith Simonton - 1999 - 321 pages
...perfectly clear and satisfactory to myself, when I try to express them in language I feel that I must begin by putting myself upon quite another intellectual...maladroitness, and not through want of clearness of perception. That is one of the small annoyances of my life. Curiously, Galton admitted that words would sometimes...
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A Mind at a Time

Mel Levine - 2002 - 352 pages
...writing, and still more in explaining myself, that I do not so easily think in words as otherwise. ... I therefore waste a vast deal of time in seeking for...conscious, when required to speak on a sudden, of being very obscure through mere verbal maladroitness, and not through want of clear perception. That is one...
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Object Design: Roles, Responsibilities, and Collaborations

Rebecca Wirfs-Brock, Alan McKean - 2003 - 420 pages
...that are perfectly clear and satisfactory to myself, when I try to express them ... I feel that 1 must begin by putting myself upon quite another intellectual...language that does not run very evenly with them." We, too, experience a shift when we move from informal CRC card modeling to more formal descriptions...
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The Mind of the Mathematician

Michael Fitzgerald, Ioan James, Professor Ioan James - 2007 - 196 pages
...perfectly clear and satisfactory to myself, when I try to express them in language I feel that I must begin by putting myself upon quite another intellectual...plane. I have to translate my thoughts into a language which does not run very evenly with them. I therefore waste a great deal of time in seeking for appropriate...
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