Attention Quote by Steven Rose

We must [it has been arued] go beyond reductionism to a holistic recognition that biology and culture interpenetrate in an inextricable manner.

— Stephen Jay Gould

Reduction is at the heart of progress in science.

— Jon Elster

“In a reductionist view, understanding something complex requires breaking it down into its components; understand those parts, add them together, and you’ll understand the…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

The progress of science requires the growth of understanding in both directions, downward from the whole to the parts and upward from the parts…

— Freeman Dyson

For example, the idea that objects have properties out there in fixed ways is an incorrect idea about the world. Properties are created through…

— Vandana Shiva

“‎"If our world is regulated by reductionist, narrow, sophomoric versions of Darwin; or reductionist, narrow, sophomoric versions of religious dogma; you end up being…

— Cornel West

The relevant features of scientific practice often have mundane explanations which don't point to any deep metaphysical moral. (Thus it would simply be messy…

— David Papineau

“Genetic medicine is the ultimate reductionist fantasy.”

— T. Colin Campbell

“biology is usually called upon to justify a society based on selfish principles, but we should never forget that it has also produced the…

— Frans de Waal

If you're a conservation biologist in many fields, you're seeing your study subject disappear. People are in the position where they're chronicling radical decline,…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

Biology transcends society.

— Jessie Redmon Fauset

“The ideology and philosophy of neo-Darwinism which is sold by its adepts as a scientific theoretical foundation of biology seriously hampers the development of…

— Vladimir L. Voeikov