Diversity Quote by Jacques Monod

All science is the search for unity in hidden likenesses.

— Jacob Bronowski

I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato. In fact the smallest units of matter are not physical objects in…

— Werner Heisenberg

For each successive class of phenomena, a new calculus or a new geometry, as the case might be, which might prove not wholly inadequate…

— Henry John Stephen Smith

“Science may be defined as the reduction of multiplicity to unity. It seeks to explain the endlessly diverse phenomena of nature by ignoring the…

— Aldous Huxley

As some people say, we're already in a Singularity relative to ancient Grecians, inasmuch as they couldn't understand our world at all... and I…

— William Deresiewicz

“Particle physicists are the most deeply Platonic because their entire subject is built upon a belief that the deepest workings of the world are…

— John D. Barrow

[we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.

— Jules Verne

“Most scientists and mathematicians operate as if Platonism is true regardless of whether they believe that it is. That is, they work as though…

— John D. Barrow

I believe modern SF needs to at least be aware of the singularity, if only so that it can dismiss it intelligently (or work…

— Charles Stross

“[M]odern physics has definitely decided for Plato. For the smallest units of matter are not physical objects in the ordinary sense of the word:…

— Rupert Sheldrake

“Plato holds a special place among them. His detailed interpretation of matter as a hollow space surrounded by regularly shaped bodies was too specific…

— Henning Genz

In our civilization, there are permanent forms which are part of every epoch and every culture. They are not especially difficult to detect. A…

— Philippe Starck