--- title: "1 Nabokov Different Quotes By Brian Boyd" description: "1 Nabokov Different quotes by Brian Boyd. Plus more from Brian Boyd and more Nabokov Different sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f02/brian-boyd-27592_different_popper-and-nabokov-are-very-different-pe_260970.jpg" --- > [Popper and Nabokov are very different people in some ways - and I'm ready to devote large chunks of my life to both of them. Popper didn't think much of words but thought ideas mattered, and Nabokov didn't think much…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-boyd/popper-and-nabokov-are-very-different-people-in-some-ways-and-i-m/) [Brian Boyd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-boyd/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f02/brian-boyd-27592_different_popper-and-nabokov-are-very-different-pe_260970.jpg) ## More by Brian Boyd > [Popper and Nabokov are very different people in some ways - and I'm ready to devote large chunks of my life to both of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-boyd/popper-and-nabokov-are-very-different-people-in-some-ways-and-i-m/) [Brian Boyd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-boyd/) > [Any artist who really engages with the problems in their medium at that moment and tries to deepen the problems is likely to discover…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-boyd/any-artist-who-really-engages-with-the-problems-in-their-medium-at/) [Brian Boyd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-boyd/) > [Perhaps the most demanding trick in all of art is to know ways that are going to capture the attention of an audience right…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-boyd/perhaps-the-most-demanding-trick-in-all-of-art-is-to-know-ways-that/) [Brian Boyd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-boyd/) > [There's a young Danish guy who has done a lot of work from an evolutionary perspective, Mathias Clasen. Basically, his argument is we've evolved…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-boyd/there-s-a-young-danish-guy-who-has-done-a-lot-of-work-from-an/) [Brian Boyd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-boyd/) > [I think that's an important part of art in general. Especially in literature, in stories, we play with eventualities that may put us through…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-boyd/i-think-that-s-an-important-part-of-art-in-general-especially-in/) [Brian Boyd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-boyd/) > [Everything is humanities. The sciences are a form of the humanities. They involve traditions of inquiry; they involve social engagement with ideas. They do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-boyd/everything-is-humanities-the-sciences-are-a-form-of-the-humanities/) [Brian Boyd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-boyd/) > [Scientists, to give them credit, do not think of the humanities in a negative way. It's the bureaucrats who want to cut costs who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-boyd/scientists-to-give-them-credit-do-not-think-of-the-humanities-in-a/) [Brian Boyd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-boyd/) > [“Writing of Pushkin, Nabokov once observed quite accurately that his subject was the threefold formula of human life: the irretrievability of the past, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-boyd/writing-of-pushkin-nabokov-once-observed-quite-accurately-that-his/) [Brian Boyd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-boyd/) > [I would be very surprised if on another planet we discovered a species as intelligent as humans that didn't have narrative, or didn't have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-boyd/i-would-be-very-surprised-if-on-another-planet-we-discovered-a/) [Brian Boyd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-boyd/) > [There is behavioral ecology, which looks closely at the difference different ecologies make to behavior and other features of animals and humans. There's evolutionary…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-boyd/there-is-behavioral-ecology-which-looks-closely-at-the-difference/) [Brian Boyd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-boyd/) > [It seems to me to make as much sense to talk about literature as a large-scale human phenomenon without bringing in evolution as it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-boyd/it-seems-to-me-to-make-as-much-sense-to-talk-about-literature-as-a/) [Brian Boyd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-boyd/) > [If an artwork never gets any attention from anybody, then obviously it's got problems. If it gains attention from a very small elite, then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-boyd/if-an-artwork-never-gets-any-attention-from-anybody-then-obviously-it/) [Brian Boyd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-boyd/) > [Literature often gets taught nowadays as a record of the sins and shortcomings of the past. I see literature and the arts very differently:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-boyd/literature-often-gets-taught-nowadays-as-a-record-of-the-sins-and/) [Brian Boyd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-boyd/) > [I guess both Nabokov and Popper had, in different ways, immunized me against the fashion for French-influenced literary theory in the '70s, '80s, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-boyd/i-guess-both-nabokov-and-popper-had-in-different-ways-immunized-me/) [Brian Boyd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-boyd/) > [I think like almost everything in evolution, the old forms persist. New forms come along - not always, of course; there are species and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-boyd/i-think-like-almost-everything-in-evolution-the-old-forms-persist-new/) [Brian Boyd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-boyd/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nabokov-different/brian-boyd/#itemlist", "name": "1 Nabokov Different Quotes By Brian Boyd", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Popper and Nabokov are very different people in some ways - and I'm ready to devote large chunks of my life to both of them. Popper didn't think much of words but thought ideas mattered, and Nabokov didn't think much of ideas, but words mattered, and so on. But both of them had a sense that this is a world of infinite discovery, unending discovery. 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