Books Quote by Brian Boyd

Popper and Nabokov are very different people in some ways - and I'm ready to devote large chunks of my life to both of…

— Brian Boyd

Any artist who really engages with the problems in their medium at that moment and tries to deepen the problems is likely to discover…

— Brian Boyd

Perhaps the most demanding trick in all of art is to know ways that are going to capture the attention of an audience right…

— Brian Boyd

There's a young Danish guy who has done a lot of work from an evolutionary perspective, Mathias Clasen. Basically, his argument is we've evolved…

— Brian Boyd

I think that's an important part of art in general. Especially in literature, in stories, we play with eventualities that may put us through…

— Brian Boyd

Everything is humanities. The sciences are a form of the humanities. They involve traditions of inquiry; they involve social engagement with ideas. They do…

— Brian Boyd

Scientists, to give them credit, do not think of the humanities in a negative way. It's the bureaucrats who want to cut costs who…

— Brian Boyd

“Writing of Pushkin, Nabokov once observed quite accurately that his subject was the threefold formula of human life: the irretrievability of the past, the…

— Brian Boyd

I would be very surprised if on another planet we discovered a species as intelligent as humans that didn't have narrative, or didn't have…

— Brian Boyd

There is behavioral ecology, which looks closely at the difference different ecologies make to behavior and other features of animals and humans. There's evolutionary…

— Brian Boyd

If an artwork never gets any attention from anybody, then obviously it's got problems. If it gains attention from a very small elite, then…

— Brian Boyd

Literature often gets taught nowadays as a record of the sins and shortcomings of the past. I see literature and the arts very differently:…

— Brian Boyd