Within a Metaphysics of Quality, science is a set of static intellectual patterns describing this reality, but the patterns are not the… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
In the temple of science are many mansions ... and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“If you get careless or go romanticizing scientific information, giving it a flourish here and there, Nature will soon make a complete… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The major producer of the social chaos, the indeterminacy of thought and values that rational knowledge is supposed to eliminate, is none… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The logic of science was infallible, and if the scientists were sometimes mistaken, this was assumed to be only from their mistaking… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“If you get careless or go romanticizing scientific information, giving it a flourish here and there, Nature will soon make a complete… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with no artistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“Historically mystics have claimed that for a true understanding of reality metaphysics is too “scientific”. Metaphysics is not reality. Metaphysics is names… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The purpose of scientific method is to select a single truth from among many hypothetical truths. That, more than anything else, is… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Of course, the laws of science contain no matter and have no energy either and therefore do not exist except in people's… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The TV scientist who mutters sadly, "The experiment is a failure; we have failed to achieve what we had hoped for," is… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Science probes; it does not prove. Imagine Newton's reaction to an objector of his law of gravity who argued that he could… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure Nature hasn't misled you into thinking you know something you don't… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“The truths Phaedrus began to pursue were lateral truths; no longer the frontal truths of science, those toward which the discipline pointed,… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something you actually… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“The ideas, the things I was saying about science and ghosts, and even that idea this afternoon about caring and technology—they are… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“And from time to time you find your “county road” takes you onto a two-rutter and then a single rutter and then into a… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share
“I started to roll over for more sleep but heard a rooster crowing and then became aware we are on vacation and there is… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share
The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share
I suppose philosophy is historically not a woman's game, though that is changing. — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share
Up until my first book was published, I had all this potential, people would say, and I screwed up. After it, I could say:… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share
There is a perennial classical question that asks which part of the motorcycle, which grain of sand in which pile, is the Buddha. Obviously… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share
“Of the value traps, the most widespread and pernicious is value rigidity. This is an inability to revalue what one sees because of commitment… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share
“Historically mystics have claimed that for a true understanding of reality metaphysics is too “scientific”. Metaphysics is not reality. Metaphysics is names about reality.… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share
“What’s emerging from the pattern of my own life is the for belief that the crisis is being caused by the inadequacy of existing… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share
To speak of certain government and establishment institutions as 'the system' is to speak correctly . . . They are sustained by structural relationships… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share
If a revolution destroys a systematic government, but the systematic patterns of thought that produced that government are left intact, then those patterns will… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share
The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share
Only social patterns can control biological patterns, and the instrument of conversation between society and biology is not words. The instrument of conversation between… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share
