What occurs when, now and then, thinking really works productively? What happens when, now and then, thinking forges ahead? What is really going on i… - Max Wertheimer

It has long seemed obvious — and is, in fact, the characteristic tone of European science — that “science” means breaking up complexes into their component elements. Isolate the elements, discover their laws, then reassemble them, and the problem is solved. All wholes are reduced to pieces and piecewise relations between pieces.

Repetition is useful, but continuous use of mechanical repetition also has harmful effects. It is dangerous because it easily induces habits of sheer mechanized action, blindness, tendencies to perform slavishly instead of thinking, instead of facing a problem freely.

I am not sure whether there can be a way of really understanding the miracle of thinking.