E. O. Wilson Quotes
The love of complexity without reductionism makes art; the love of complexity with reductionism makes science.
E. O. Wilson
Quotes to Explore
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Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
Fernando Botero
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Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.
Warren Weaver
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I was at art school that had quite a celebrated film course as well. I tried for that film course when I was 18, but they said I was too young. I tried this audio and visual design course instead. Two years later, I reapplied for that higher course, but they said I was still too young and to try in five years.
Edgar Wright
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I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.
Kami Garcia
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A science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in scientology which are very demonstrably true, and on these can be constructed a great deal.
L. Ron Hubbard
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I studied engineering in the national university, the Universidad Autonoma, in San Ildefonso. There is art everywhere, murals on the walls. It's beautiful.
Carlos Slim
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No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that different parts of the cerebrum subserve different kinds of mental action. Localization of function is the law of all organization whatever: separateness of duty is universally accompanied with separateness of structure: and it would be marvellous were an exception to exist in the cerebral hemispheres.
Herbert Spencer
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When you think of all the things that have happened, since that problem with computers in 2000 and everybody was afraid and they were buying water, imagine what Millennium would do with all the things that are going on in the world right now. It has the capacity to be a movie. But, anyway, I loved doing it. It changed my life because the guy that I was playing was so much more educated and smarter than I was, so I had to live up to it.
Lance Henriksen
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For me, performance is a holy ground. When I perform, I really step into a different state of consciousness.
Marina Abramovic
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A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
Samuel Butler
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The French have the reputation of being arrogant. I don't think it's arrogance but a certain authenticity.
Simon Baker
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The love of complexity without reductionism makes art; the love of complexity with reductionism makes science.
E. O. Wilson
