Reductionist Philosophy Quotes & Sayings

Never use God to hurt yourself. — Laura Schlessinger

Bees are excellent engineers, better than even you. They are are hard workers...They are as brave as Indian warriors. And they make honey. Far better than humans, my friend. — Luis Alberto Urrea

Democracy means not "I am as good as you are" but "You are as good as I am.". — Theodore Parker

The hardest part was convincing people that I was serious. The people were like 'you want to do this again'? — Rob Zombie

Of course, if one ignores contradictory observations, one can claim to have an "elegant" or "robust" theory. But it isn't science. — Halton Arp

When you're doing something that you think - that you know - is a breakthrough, you cannot obsess about the possibility of failure. That is just not a great place to go. — Renee James

Now, admittedly, Twitter can be entertaining on occasion, as it turns out that 140 characters offers a great chance to be misunderstood - and an even greater chance one will expose his inner troglodyte. — David Harsanyi

I've got a lot of years to live after baseball and I would like to live them with the complete use of my body. — Sandy Koufax

Sometimes you have to learn to love what's good for you. — Stephenie Meyer

When did grief end? Did it ever? Or did you just get numb from hurting yourself on it so many times? — Karen Marie Moning

Yes, he's got all them different kinds of thoroughbred blood in him, and he's got other kinds you ain't mentioned and that you ain't slick enough to see. — Don Marquis

Nature imitates herself. A grain thrown into good ground brings forth fruit; a principle thrown into a good mind brings forth fruit. Everything is created and conducted by the same Master-the root, the branch, the fruits-the principles, the consequences. — Blaise Pascal

The progress of science requires the growth of understanding in both directions, downward from the whole to the parts and upward from the parts to the whole. A reductionist philosophy, arbitrarily proclaiming that the growth of understanding must go only in one direction, makes no scientific sense. Indeed, dogmatic philosophical beliefs of any kind have no place in science. — Freeman Dyson

Where is he?' said Frodo, looking round, as if he expected a masked and sinister figure to come out of a cupboard. — J.R.R. Tolkien

It's not irrelevant, those moments of connection, those places where fiction saves your life. It's the most important thing there is. — Neil Gaiman