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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 27 quotes by David Bohm David Joseph Bohm FRS (December 20, 1917 – October 27, 1992) was an American theoretical physicist who contributed innovative and unorthodox ideas to quantum theory, philosophy of mind, and neuropsychology. He is considered to be one of the most significant theoretical physicists of the 20th century. Bohm advanced the view that the old Cartesian model of reality (that there were two interacting kinds of substance - mental and physical) was... Read full biography of David Bohm → 1 2 3 Ctrl → During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part... → 0 Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and... → 0 Individuality is only possible if it unfolds from wholeness. 0 In relativity, movement is continuous, causally determinate and well defined, while in quantum mechanics it is discontinuous, not causally... → 0 In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe. 0 We havent really paid much attention to thought as a process. we have engaged in thoughts, but we have only paid attention to the content, not to the... → 0 But you don't decide what to do with the info. Thought runs you. Thought, however, gives false info that you are running it, that you are the one... → 0 This kind of overall way of thinking is not only a fertile source of new theoretical ideas: it is needed for the human mind to function in a... → 0 The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained. 0 Similarly, thought is a system. That system not only includes thought and feelings, but it includes the state of the body; it includes the whole of... → 0 Thought is constantly creating problems that way and then trying to solve them. But as it tries to solve them it makes it worse because it... → 0 One thus sees that a new kind of theory is needed which drops these basic commitments and at most recovers some essential features of the older... → 0 And thought struggles against the results, trying to avoid those unpleasant results while keeping on with that way of thinking. That is what I call... → 0 1 2 3 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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