History Quote by Steven Vogel

Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of…

— Paul Simon

“This book intends to make the case for explanation by reduction to physics and mechanical engineering, to this alternative realm of explanation: not to…

— Steven Vogel

The history of atomism is one of reductionism – the effort to reduce all the operations of nature to a small number of laws…

— Leon M. Lederman

“The brain’s dense thicket of interrelationships, like those of history or art, does not yield to the reductivist’s bright blade.”

— Thomas Lewis

There is a strong current in contemporary culture advocating ' holistic ' views as some sort of cure-all... Reductionism implies attention to a lower…

— Francisco Varela

The intellectual tension that seems to work its way through this society almost like fat through meat is the tension between scientific reductionism and…

— Terence McKenna

By a monstrous act of reductionism, the infinite depth of who you are is confused with a sound produced by the vocal cords." (p. 28)

— Eckhart Tolle

“It’s not an academic question any more to ask what’s going to happen to a cloud. People very much want to know—and that means…

— James Gleick

I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization,…

— Azar Nafisi

“It seemed a ruse that fear of death should be the sole motivation for living and, yet, to quell this fear made the prospect…

— Ashim Shanker

“We live in a culture of reductionism. Or better, we are living in the aftermath of a culture of reductionism, and I believe we…

— Tim Keel

“Reductionism argues that we can learn what 'makes things tick' by looking more closely at matter, examining the underlying units. There are at least…

— Mark Ireland