Inspirational Quote by Douglas Hofstadter

Reductionism is a dirty word, and a kind of 'holistier than thou' self-righteousness has become fashionable.

— Richard Dawkins

[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

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

“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

The best reduction, the most final reduction, is to destroy the warheads.

— Jack Reed

“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

The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Downsizing itself is an inevitable part of any creatively destructive economy.

— James Surowiecki

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

Anathematization of the world is not an adequate response to the world.

— Donald Barthelme

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

“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