You can’t go on defending your patterns of reasoning foreve… - Douglas Hofstadter

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You can’t go on defending your patterns of reasoning forever, there comes a point where faith takes over.

Douglas Hofstadter

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About Douglas Hofstadter

Douglas Hofstadter (born February 15, 1945) is a mathematician, cognitive scientist, and Pulitzer Prize winning author.

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Native Name: Douglas Richard Hofstadter

Alternative Names: Douglas R. Hofstadter

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I would like to understand things better, but I don’t want to understand them perfectly.

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