A Quote by Douglas Hofstadter

Reductionism is merciless.

Douglas Hofstadter

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Douglas Hofstadter
American - Writer
Born: February 15, 1945

Schoolboys are a merciless race, individually they are angels, but together, especially in schools, they are often merciless.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

One good reason for the popularity of "reductionism" among the philosophical outposts of the Western Establishment is that it can be, and is, used as a device for trying to take the wind, so to speak, out of the sails of Marxism. . . . In essence reductionism is a kind of anti-Marxist caricature of Marxist determinism. It is what anti-Marxists pretend that Marxist determinism is.

Claud Cockburn

The love of complexity without reductionism makes art; the love of complexity with reductionism makes science.

E. O. Wilson

Words can be an act of reductionism.

O. T. Fagbenle

Reductionism is a dirty word, and a kind of 'holistier than thou' self-righteousness has become fashionable.

Richard Dawkins

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

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

In art, as in science, reductionism does not trivialize our perception - of color, light, and perspective - but allows us to see each of these components in a new way.

Eric Kandel

Reductionism and elimination make one feel clever, but what happens when the meditator drops her fixation on feeling clever?

Timothy Morton

There is no tyrant as merciless as pain.

Stephen King

Cold is merciless. It shows you where you are. What you are.

Wim Hof

Nature is so merciless - but so righteous.

Wim Hof

The belief that life on earth arose spontaneously from nonliving matter, is simply a matter of faith in strict reductionism and is based entirely on ideology.

Hubert Yockey

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

Azar Nafisi

The most consistent versions of materialism deny the reality of anything beyond matter - no soul, no spirit, no will, no mind. This is called reductionism: Humans are reduced to biochemical machines.

Nancy Pearcey

...the Church is the merciless heart of the State.

Pier Paolo Pasolini

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