Reductionist Quotes
11 quotes by 10 authors
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You’re getting rid of the things that people used to think were essential to art. But that reduction is only incidental. I object to the…
— Donald Judd
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The progress of science requires the growth of understanding in both directions, downward from the whole to the parts and upward from the parts to…
— Freeman Dyson
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It’s the reductionist approach to life: if you keep it small, you’ll keep it under control. If you don’t make any noise, the bogeyman won’t…
— Sophie Scholl
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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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In the past, [medicalization]has been portrayed as something that doctors inflict on a passive and un-suspecting world - an expansion of the Medical Empire. But…
— Ben Goldacre
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One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view…
— Russell Banks
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Short form media is reductionist by nature.
— Jon Krakauer
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You know, in our culture today, our Western, reductionist, Roman, linear, fragmented... culture, we don't ask how to make a pig happy. We ask how…
— Joel Salatin
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If we fail to appreciate the soul that Easternism gives us, then what we have is a disconnected, Greco-Roman, Western, egocentric, compartmentalized, reductionist, fragmented, linear…
— Joel Salatin
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In the end, science as we know it has two basic types of practitioners. One is the educated man who still has a controlled sense…
— Loren Eiseley
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Treating an age group as a demographic requires coming up with something that's common to every single one of them. Right?... So it's reductionist in…
— Douglas Rushkoff
Who Wrote These Reductionist Quotes
10 authors contributed a total of 11 Reductionist Quotes as follows: