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

— Max Wertheimer

Source: Productive thinking, 1945, p. 227

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Co-founder of Gestalt psychology 1880–1943

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

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