Best Irreducible Quotes

39 Irreducible quotes by 38 unique authors

Poetry is an intimate act. It's about bringing forth something that's inside you--whether it is a memory, a philosophical idea, a deep love for another… — Dorianne Laux
Physical objects are conceptually imported into the situation as convenient intermediaries not by definition in terms of experience, but simply as irreducible posits comparable, epistemologically,… — Willard Van Orman Quine
Resistances do not derive from a few heterogeneous principles; but neither are they a lure or a promise that is of necessity betrayed. They are… — Michel Foucault
We knew so little about eachother. We lay mostly submerged, like ice floes with our visible social selves projecting only cool and white. Here was… — Ian Mcewan
The supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the… — Albert Einstein
You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so… — Alan Watts
There's release in knowing the truth no matter how anguishing it is. You come finally to the irreducible thing, and there's nothing left to do… — Sue Monk Kidd
The only sovereign I can allow to rule me is reason. The first law of reason is this: what exists exists; what is is. From… — Terry Goodkind
In the abstract, it might be tempting to imagine that irreducible complexity simply requires multiple simultaneous mutations - that evolution might be far chancier than… — Michael Behe
To see and feel one's beloved naked for the first time is one of life's pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a true religion in… — Dan Simmons
We open the halves of a miracle, and a clotting of acids brims into the starry divisions: creation's original juices, irreducible, changeless, alive: so the… — Pablo Neruda
We are left with nothing but death, the irreducible fact of our own mortality. Death after a long illness we can accept with resignation. Even… — Paul Auster
There is an elementary aspiration which undergirds the humane impulse in our history and our culture and binds us together as political activists. This is… — Paul Wellstone
Creationists have also changed their name ... to intelligent design theorists who study 'irreducible complexity' and the 'abrupt appearance' of life-yet more jargon for 'God… — Michael Shermer

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