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In a famous letter to Jacques Hadamard, Einstein described the important role of the visual in his own extremely abstract thinking: “The words of the language, as they are written and spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The psychical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more or less clear images which can be volutarily reproduced or combined…. The above mentioned elements are, in my case, of visual and some muscular type…”

Einstein himself didn't think any words, ergo it's possible to formulate very complicated ideas without any words.

I think that's proof enough. I don't see any proof from you that you must absolutely use words to think. As I said, there's no need to continue this conversation if you don't believe what I tell you about myself, I find it really irritating.



No troll is too much for me to handle. I rehabilitate trolls, I train people. I am the Troll Whisperer.