Reducible Quotes
16 quotes by 15 authors
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Though the world does not change with a change of paradigm, the scientist afterward works in a different world... I am convinced that we must…
— Thomas Kuhn
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Intellectuals are judged not by their morals, but by the quality of their ideas, which are rarely reducible to simple verdicts of truth or falsity,…
— Perry Anderson
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I want to be black, to know black, to luxuriate in whatever I might be calling blackness at any particular time, but to do so…
— Henry Louis Gates
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To say that my anxiety is reducible to the ions in my amygdalaâ€â€”the home of the fight-or-flight reflex—“is as limiting as saying that my personality…
— Scott Stossel
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One of the most extraordinary examples in recent decades [of unitary visions of constitutional enterprise] is found in a book called "Takings"... Epstein makes an…
— Laurence Tribe
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These are the rules of big business. They have superseded the teachings of our parents and are reducible to a simple maxim: Get a monopoly;…
— Frederic C. Howe
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If we conceive all the changes in the physical world as reducible to the motion of atoms, motions generated by means of the fixed nuclear…
— Wilhelm Dilthey
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Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
— Rachel Kushner
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The truth of faith about creation is radically opposed to the theories of materialistic philosophy. These view the cosmos as the result of an evolution…
— Pope John Paul II
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All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's…
— Edward Norton
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A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a…
— George Santayana
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The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever.
— Don DeLillo
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We see not only thought as participating in evolution as an anomaly or as an epiphenomenon; but evolution as so reducible to and identifiable with…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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To say that my anxiety is reducible to the ions in my amygdala is as limiting as saying that my personality or my soul is…
— Scott Stossel
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But it is strange how many rational beings believe the ultimate truths of the universe to be reducible to patterns on a blackboard.
— Frederick Pollock
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The terrible tabulation of the French statists brings every piece of whim and humor to be reducible also to exact numerical ratios. If one man…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who Wrote These Reducible Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 16 Reducible Quotes as follows: