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 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
“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
“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
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
“This book intends to make the case for explanation by reduction to physics and mechanical engineering, to this alternative realm of explanation:… — Steven Vogel 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
“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
“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
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
“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
