"The more chaos there is, the more science……" — William Irwin Thompson
"The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered."
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William Irwin Thompson
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26 Quotes by William Irwin Thompson
William Irwin Thompson has 26 quotes on this site.
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Like a shadow that does not permit us to jump over it, but moves with us to maintain its proper…
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Science is the storytelling of our time.
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The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.
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That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth.
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In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy.
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When we come to an edge we come to a frontier that tells us that we are now about to…
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But the time has come; the revelation has already occurred, and the guardian seers have seen the lightning strike the…
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Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there…
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If humans died in a healthy culture, they would not lock out the earth in metal coffins and carve their…
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The future is beyond knowing, but the present is beyond belief.
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If a person is open to a new world view, it can often mean that he is not firmly rooted…
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For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that…
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More Abstract Quotes
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
— Honore de Balzac
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I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really…
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
— Theodor Adorno
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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
— Theodor Adorno
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Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some…
— Nicolas Cage
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Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still…
— Nicolas Cage
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I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
— Eric Cantona
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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
— Al Capp
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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change…
— Saul Alinsky
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'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would…
— Sam Abell
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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply…
— John Dewey
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It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without…
— Giorgio Armani
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