Reductionism Quotes
He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
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We must [it has been arued] go beyond reductionism to a holistic recognition that biology and culture interpenetrate in an inextricable manner.
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.
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.
Reductionism is a dirty word, and a kind of 'holistier than thou' self-righteousness has become fashionable.
Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
The history of atomism is one of reductionism – the effort to reduce all the operations of nature to a small number of laws governing a small number of primordial objects.
The love of complexity without reductionism makes art; the love of complexity with reductionism makes science.
Scientific physiology has the task of determining the functions of the animal body and deriving them as a necessary consequence from its elementary conditions.
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)
We believe that religions are basically the same…they only differ on matters of creation, sin, heaven, hell, God, and salvation.
