Quote by Neil Postman Download Open image ““all theories are oversimplifications, or at least lead to oversimplification.”” — Neil Postman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“That is the function of theories—to oversimplify, and thus to assist believers in organizing, weighting, and excluding information. Therein lies the power of theories.… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“A theory is more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises, the more different are the kinds of things it relates, and the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“this is mathematical speculation by a bunch of overcaffeinated theorists.” — Jorge Cham Copy Share Image
“Much can be gained be contrasting a theory with its alternatives, even ones that look too extreme to be true. You can really understand… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“metaphysics by showing that these theories are not just false, but unintelligible.” — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Enormous simplifications were possibly necessary to carry a deeper truth than lay on the surface of a mass of unsorted detail.” — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“They conceive a certain theory, and everything has to fit into that theory. If one little fact will not fit it, they throw it… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“to whom will the technology give greater power and freedom? And whose power and freedom will be reduced by it?” — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Cyberspace' is a metaphorical idea which is supposed to be the space where your consciousness is located when you're using computer technology on the… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Textbooks, it seems to me, are enemies of education, instruments for promoting dogmatism and trivial learning. They may save the teacher some trouble, but… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“There being no international copyright laws, “pirated” editions abounded, with no complaint from the public, or much from authors, who were lionized.” — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“The television commercial is not at all about the character of products to be consumed. It is about the character of the consumers of… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Many decisions about the form and content of news programs are made on the basis of information about the viewer, the purpose of which… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“the world we live in is very nearly incomprehensible to most of us. There is almost no fact, whether actual or imagined, that will… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Huxley grasped, as Orwell did not, that it is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“The written word is assumed to have been reflected upon and revised by its author,” — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
We do not measure a culture by its output of undisguised trivialities but by what it claims as significant. — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
