"The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered."

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Source : William Irwin Thompson (1987). “Gaia, a Way of Knowing: Political Implications of the New Biology”, Inner Traditions International

William Irwin Thompson

#Chaos Quotes #Abstract Quotes

“This isn't just 'the way things are.' This is the way you made them. This is the result of your choices, your actions. Yours.”

Source : Andrew Klavan (2009). “Empire of Lies”, p.127, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Today, the PC is often still considered just a tool, but together we need to make it a lot more than that. We need to make it a path to experiences.”
“One day we shall certainly 'reduce' thought experimentally to molecular and chemical motions in the brain; but does that exhaust the essence of thought?”
“Any God I ever found in church, I brought in myself.”
“I'm the kind of actor who has ventured into escaping from me.”
“Television was the most revolutionary event of the century. Its importance was in a class with the discovery of gunpowder and the invention of the printing press, which changed the human condition for centuries afterward.”
“When any one person or body of men seize into their hands the power in the last resort, there is properly no longer a government, but what Aristotle and his followers call the abuse and corruption of one.”
“I produce the way I would love to be produced: In ways to create the best conditions to make your movie, but also to create a space in which the director calls the shots.”

Source : The AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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