“Reductionism describes the scheme, and it has a long history of successes.” — Steven Vogel Copy Share Image
The love of complexity without reductionism makes art; the love of complexity with reductionism makes science. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Reductionism is a dirty word, and a kind of 'holistier than thou' self-righteousness has become fashionable. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The brain’s dense thicket of interrelationships, like those of history or art, does not yield to the reductivist’s bright blade.” — Thomas Lewis Copy Share Image
The most consistent versions of materialism deny the reality of anything beyond matter - no soul, no spirit, no will, no mind.… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
What are you doing here anyway?" "'Here' as in your bedroom or 'here' as in the great spiritual question of our purpose… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The history of atomism is one of reductionism – the effort to reduce all the operations of nature to a small number… — Leon M. Lederman Copy Share Image
We must [it has been arued] go beyond reductionism to a holistic recognition that biology and culture interpenetrate in an inextricable manner. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
One good reason for the popularity of "reductionism" among the philosophical outposts of the Western Establishment is that it can be, and… — Claud Cockburn Copy Share Image
I have a firm belief in such things as, you know, the water, the Earth, the trees and sky. And I'm wondering,… — Bill Blass Copy Share Image
“It is important to distinguish between reductionism as a philosophical posi- tion (or world-view) and as a methodology. Reductionism in the former… — E. Brian Davies Copy Share Image
We still find, especially in parts of academe, the damaging notion that everything is a struggle for power, or being empowered, or… — Robert Conquest Copy Share Image
“Vienna School merges with the thought of Ayn Rand. She believed that competition was the meaning of life itself; Hitler said much… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
[R]eductionism' is one of those things, like sin, that is only mentioned by people who are against it. To call oneself a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There is another temptation which we must especially guard against: the simplistic reductionism which sees only good or evil; or, if you… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“Whereas traditional reductionism sought to find the commonality underlying diversity in reference to a shared substance, such as material atoms, contemporary systems… — Ervin Laszlo Copy Share Image
“It seemed a ruse that fear of death should be the sole motivation for living and, yet, to quell this fear made… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
And yet my, not only my faith, but my experience has led me to believe that the world is not a construction… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“Something like missionary reductionism has happened to the internet with the rise of web 2.0. The strangeness is being leached away by… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
“In the West, the great problem that was created for Christianity from the 17th century onward and even earlier during the Renaissance… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“Reductionism in the physical sciences has been challenged by the principle of emergence. The whole system acquires qualitatively new properties that cannot… — Michael S. Gazzaniga Copy Share Image
We live at a time that is notable for the polemical nature of discussions about identity, consciousness, rationality, agency, memory, and feeling.… — Robert P. George Copy Share Image
“We live in a culture of reductionism. Or better, we are living in the aftermath of a culture of reductionism, and I… — Tim Keel Copy Share Image
“Science seeks to understand complex processes by reducing them to their essential actions and studying the interplay of those actions--and this reductionist… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
“We believe that religions are basically the same…they only differ on matters of creation, sin, heaven, hell, God, and salvation.” — Steve Turner Copy Share Image
In art, as in science, reductionism does not trivialize our perception - of color, light, and perspective - but allows us to… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
Reductionism and elimination make one feel clever, but what happens when the meditator drops her fixation on feeling clever? — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
The belief that life on earth arose spontaneously from nonliving matter, is simply a matter of faith in strict reductionism and is… — Hubert Yockey Copy Share Image
By a monstrous act of reductionism, the infinite depth of who you are is confused with a sound produced by the vocal… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
A popular cliche in philosophy says that science is pure analysis or reductionism, like taking the rainbow to pieces; and art is… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
A delicate balance is required to combat violence perpetrated in the name of a religion, an ideology or an economic system, while… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“My humanity includes not just what I am at the present moment, but what I can be. I am also my future,… — Joan Timmerman Copy Share Image
Reducing everything immediately to good and evil is bad history - not only because it isn't true, but because reductionism is unpersuasive;… — Ben Sasse Copy Share Image
Clary: What are you doing here, anyway? Jace: 'Here' as in your bedroom or 'here' as in the great spiritual question of… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The intellectual tension that seems to work its way through this society almost like fat through meat is the tension between scientific… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Protestant Christianity, whether in its liberal or conservative garb, finds itself waking up each morning in bed with a deteriorating modern culture,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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