Inspirational Quote by Douglas Hofstadter Download Open image “Reductionism is merciless.” — Douglas Hofstadter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Inspirational Love Reductionism
Reductionism is a dirty word, and a kind of 'holistier than thou' self-righteousness has become fashionable. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
[R]eductionism' is one of those things, like sin, that is only mentioned by people who are against it. To call oneself a reductionist will… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The most consistent versions of materialism deny the reality of anything beyond matter - no soul, no spirit, no will, no mind. This is… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
“With the years and convulsions of history, the word-as reductionist as the dictionary itself-has undergone absurd metamorphoses. In some countries, they prefer the word… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The best reduction, the most final reduction, is to destroy the warheads. — Jack Reed Copy Share Image
“Vienna School merges with the thought of Ayn Rand. She believed that competition was the meaning of life itself; Hitler said much the same… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Downsizing itself is an inevitable part of any creatively destructive economy. — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
The reduction of the earth to an object simply for human's use/ possession is unthinkable in most traditional cultures... the earth belongs to itself… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
Anathematization of the world is not an adequate response to the world. — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
It's possible, without taking sides or playing the statesman game, to reduce destruction simply by reducing the development of technology of destruction. — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
“We may regard totalitarianism as a process of the annihilation of individuality, but, in more fundamental terms, it is the annihilation, first, of those… — Robert A. Nisbet Copy Share Image
You make decisions, take actions, affect the world, receive feedback from the world, incorporate it into yourself, then the updated 'you' makes more decisions,… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
“It is an inherent property of intelligence that it can jump out of the task which it is performing, and survey what it has… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
Relying on words to lead you to the truth is like relying on an incomplete formal system to lead you to the truth. A… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
For 13 to be unlucky would require there to be some kind of cosmic intelligence that counts things that humans count and that also… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
No reference is truly direct—every reference depends on SOME kind of coding scheme. It's just a question of how implicit it is. — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
You can never represent yourself totally .... to seek self -knowledge is to embark on a journey which ... will always be incomplete, cannot… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
The entire effort of artificial intelligence is essentially a fight against computers’ rigidity. — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
It is an inherent property of intelligence that it can jump out of a task which it is performing and survey what it has… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
Enormous numbers of people are taken in, or at least beguiled and fascinated, by what seems to me to be unbelievable hocum, and relatively… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
We talk to God--that is prayer; God talks to us--that is inspiration. — H. Emilie Cady Copy Share Image
You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Just understand that the good that you want is already here. All you have to do is get in harmony with it. And you… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
It's a hard thing to describe. It's just this sense that you got something to say. — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
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