Reductionism Quotes
12 quotes by 12 authors
-
We must [it has been arued] go beyond reductionism to a holistic recognition that biology and culture interpenetrate in an inextricable manner.
— Stephen Jay Gould
-
I maintain that the human mystery is incredibly demeaned by scientific reductionism, with its claim in promissory materialism to account eventually for all of the…
— John Eccles
-
Reductionism is merciless.
— Douglas Hofstadter
-
I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism…
— Azar Nafisi
-
The belief that life on earth arose spontaneously from nonliving matter, is simply a matter of faith in strict reductionism and is based entirely on…
— Hubert Yockey
-
The history of atomism is one of reductionism – the effort to reduce all the operations of nature to a small number of laws governing…
— Leon M. Lederman
-
Protestant Christianity, whether in its liberal or conservative garb, finds itself waking up each morning in bed with a deteriorating modern culture, between sheets with…
— Thomas Oden
-
A popular cliche in philosophy says that science is pure analysis or reductionism, like taking the rainbow to pieces; and art is pure synthesis, putting…
— Jacob Bronowski
-
The love of complexity without reductionism makes art; the love of complexity with reductionism makes science.
— E. O. Wilson
-
By a monstrous act of reductionism, the infinite depth of who you are is confused with a sound produced by the vocal cords." (p. 28)
— Eckhart Tolle
-
Clary: What are you doing here, anyway? Jace: 'Here' as in your bedroom or 'here' as in the great spiritual question of our purpose here…
— Cassandra Clare
-
In art, as in science, reductionism does not trivialize our perception - of color, light, and perspective - but allows us to see each of…
— Eric Kandel
Who Wrote These Reductionism Quotes
12 authors contributed a total of 12 Reductionism Quotes as follows: