"Reductionist ideology not only hinders biologists from thinking adequately about the phenomena we wish to understand: it has two important social consequences: it serves to relocate social problems to the individual rather than exploring the societal roots and determinants of a phenomenon; and second, it diverts attention and funding from the social to the molecular."

-- Steven Rose

#Thinking Quotes #Two Quotes #Roots Quotes

“I've been doing silly voices since I was a child.”
“Australia is breathtakingly beautiful, and I can't wait to visit again.”

Source : FaceBook post by Joe Nichols from Sep 17, 2012
“I still sing because I love the sound of applause, because it's who I am, and because I still can.”
“There are twenty-seven specific complaints against the British Crown set forth in the Declaration of Independence. To modern ears they still sound reasonable. They still sound reasonable, in large part, because so many of them can be leveled against the federal government of the United States.”
“In fact people do not know enough about themselves and what is good for them to form a sufficiently definite conception of the general happiness (or whatever the end is) to establish definite rules for its pursuit.”
“A global economy is characterized not only by the free movement of goods and services but, more important, by the free movement of ideas and of capital.”
“Art is a car, kitsch is a horse.”
“Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.”

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