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Loren Eiseley has 74 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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A man who has once looked with the archaeological eye will never see quite normally. He will be wounded by what other…
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Some degree of withdrawal serves to nurture man's creative powers. The artist and the scientist bring out of the dark void, like…
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[On common water.] Its substance reaches everywhere; it touches the past and prepares the future; it moves under the poles and wanders…
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After chiding the theologian for his reliance on myth and miracle, science found itself in the unenviable position of having to create…
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It was the failures who had always won, but by the time they won they had come to be called successes.
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The freedom to create is somehow linked with facility of access to those obscure regions below the conscious mind.
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Modern man lives increasingly in the future and neglects the present.
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The future is neither ahead nor behind, on one side or another. Nor is it dark or light. It is contained within…
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Mind is locked in matter like the spirit Ariel in a cloven pine. Like Ariel, men struggle to escape the drag of…
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You think that way as you begin to get grayer and you see pretty plainly that the game is not going to…
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Man is dragged hither and thither, at one moment by the blind instincts of the forest, at the next by the strange…
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Man inhabits a realm half in and half out of nature, his mind reaching forever beyond the tool, the uniformity, the law,…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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"...…
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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…
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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,…
— 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.…
— 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,…
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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…
— 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…
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