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
“Reductionism argues that we can learn what 'makes things tick' by looking more closely at matter, examining the underlying units. There are… — Mark Ireland Copy Share Image
There is a strong current in contemporary culture advocating ' holistic ' views as some sort of cure-all... Reductionism implies attention to… — Francisco Varela Copy Share Image
I maintain that the human mystery is incredibly demeaned by scientific reductionism, with its claim in promissory materialism to account eventually for… — Anonymous 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… — Anonymous 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
“Science,’ he informed me, ‘might not yet have all the answers, but it is the only verifiable—and hence meaningful—way of asking the… — David Zindell Copy Share Image
“It’s not an academic question any more to ask what’s going to happen to a cloud. People very much want to know—and… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
The Truth doesn't need your cooperation to exist. All forms of cult, all forms of hype, all forms of delusion do require… — Terence McKenna 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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
