Science Quotes by Jonah Lehrer

8 Science quotes by Jonah Lehrer

Jonah Lehrer’s knack for turning science into narrative is evident in this short set of eight quotes. They offer a quick taste of his ability to make complex ideas feel relatable.

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“Every brilliant experiment, like every great work of art, starts with an act of imagination. Unfortunately, our current culture subscribes to a…

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“Science has discovered that, like any work of literature, the human genome is a text in need of commentary, for what Eliot…

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Like a work of art, we exceed our materials. Science needs art to frame the mystery, but art needs science so that…

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I want to give people theories, I want to expose them to scientific stories that force them to re-evaluate the way they…

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It is ironic but true: the one reality science cannot reduce is the only reality we will ever know. This is why…

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The one reality science cannot reduce is the only reality we will ever know.

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I always wanted to be a scientist, I always thought I'd be a scientist, that was the narrative I was carrying around.…

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[It's] troubling because it reminds us how difficult it is to prove anything. We like to pretend that our experiments define the…

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It's a hard thing to describe. It's just this sense that you got something to say.

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“When the mind is denied the emotional sting of losing , it never figures out how to win.”

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“Insights, after all, come from the overlap between seemingly unrelated thoughts. They emerge when concepts are transposed, when the rules of one place are…

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“You break out of the box by stepping into shackles. From Imagine: How Creativity Works pg 23 (hardcover)”

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So let's not pretend that travel is always fun. We don't spend 10 hours lost in the Louvre because we like it, and the…

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“In fact, most of us see perseverance as a distinctly uncreative approach, the sort of strategy that people with mediocre ideas are forced to…

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Grit is the stubborn refusal to quit.

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“Even when alternative views are clearly wrong, being exposed to them still expands our creative potential. In a way, the power of dissent is…

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Cities force us to interact with strangers and with the strange. They pry the mind open. And that is why they are the idea…

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Distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has…

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In fact, the only way to remain creative over time--to not be undone by our expertise--is to experiment with ignorance, to stare at things…

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“Science has discovered that, like any work of literature, the human genome is a text in need of commentary, for what Eliot said of…

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...new ideas are merely several old thoughts that occur at the exact same time.

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Like a work of art, we exceed our materials. Science needs art to frame the mystery, but art needs science so that not everything…

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