“Were these boys in their right minds? Here were two boys with good intellect, one eighteen and one nineteen. They had all… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
“Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look at science and the powerful reductionism that… — Peter Atkins 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
“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
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
“As Einstein once said, “It is the theory which decides what can be observed.” But I must add that prior to theory… — Vernon L. Smith Copy Share Image
“The ideal of the 11th/17th century physicists was to be able to explain all physical reality in terms of the movement of… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr 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
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
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
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
“The astonishing fact is that similar mathematics applies so well to planets and to clocks. It needn’t have been this way. We… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look at science and the powerful reductionism that… — Peter Atkins Copy Share Image
“We have come to understand the phenomena of life only as an assemblage of the lifeless. We take the mechanistic abstractions of… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
“The mystical trend of our time, which shows itself particularly in the rampant growth of the so-called Theosophy and Spiritualism, is for… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Reductionism is not the right viewpoint for everything, and it certainly won't explain the relationship between the brain and the mind. This… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image