Thoughts develop humans

What do we know about thoughts? What power does it have? Due to our ability to thinking, we have we've got that we have - technologies technology, knowledge, and civilization. Someones have made a something more than others. Einstein, Mendeleev, Pythagoras, and many of other peoples have made a major contribution in the development of our civilization. But How did they do it? What process, what or scheme of thinking did they use? All of the <a id="PXLINK_5_0_4" class="pxInta" href="#">world</a> is obeying some principles, algorithms and it isn't dependant on whether we know their them or not... So maybe is there is something algorithms to thinking that make them so effective?

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