Synthesis Quotes

• Creativity is the production of meaning by synthesis.

  Alex Faickney Osborn

  Creativity, Productions

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• Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Two, Truth Is, Found

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• Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.

  C. S. Lewis

  Growth, Continuity, Mere

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “Selected Literary Essays”, p.105, Cambridge University Press

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• But life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Opposites, Creative, Harmony

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.21, Beacon Press

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• Most research is a synthesis of problem solving and creativity.

  Joan Z. Borysenko

  Creativity, Research, Problem

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• Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Mind, Analysis, Habit

  Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (1992). “Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1930-1932”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns

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• In order to begin an analysis, there must already be a synthesis present in the mind.

  Johan Huizinga

  Thoughtful, Thinking, Order

  Johan Huizinga (2014). “Men and Ideas: History, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance”, p.25, Princeton University Press

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• Analysis and synthesis are both as necessary to the thinking spirit as inspiration and expiration to the organism.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspiration, Thinking, Analysis

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• We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill... it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress.

  Li Ka-shing

  Inspirational, Business, Knowledge

  "Financial Expert Witness Communication: A Practical Guide to Reporting and Testimony". Book by Bradley J. Preber (p. 81), May 9, 2014.

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• Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.

  Ovid

  Beauty, Reality, Vision

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• Life is not found in atoms or molecules or genes as such, but in organization; not in symbiosis but in synthesis.

  Edwin Conklin

  Life, Science, Organization

  "Evolution by Association : A History of Symbiosis: A History of Symbiosis" by Edwin Grant Conklin, Oxford University Press, August 22, 1994.

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• Science, my dears, is the systematic dissection of nature, to reduce it to working parts that more or less obey universal laws. Sorcery moves in the opposite direction. It doesn't rend, it repairs. It is synthesis rather than analysis. It builds anew rather than revealing the old. In the hands of someone truly skilled,...it is Art.

  Gregory Maguire

  Art, Moving, Hands

  Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.130, Harper Collins

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• What we think of as reality is a continuous synthesis of elements from a fixed hierarchy of a priori concepts and the ever changing data of the senses.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Reality, Thinking, Data

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• There is synthesis when, in combining therein judgments that are made known to us from simpler relations, one deduces judgments from them relative to more complicated relations.
  There is analysis when from a complicated truth one deduces more simple truths.

  Andre-Marie Ampere

  Truth, Science, Simple

  "André-Marie Ampère: Enlightenment and Electrodynamics". Book by James R. Hofmann, p. 158, 1996.

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• Without analysis, no synthesis.

  Friedrich Engels

  Science, Analysis, Statistics

  Friedrich Engels (1935). “Herr Eugen Dühring's revolution in science [anti-Dühring]”

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• A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Artist, Design, Mechanic

  R. Buckminster Fuller (2009). “Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure”, p.116, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites. The idealists are not usually realistic, and the realists are not usually idealistic. The militant are not generally known to be passive, nor the passive to be militant. Seldom are the humble self-assertive, or the self-assertive humble. But life at it's best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Strong, Humble, Men

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• ...comparing the capacity of computers to the capacity of the human brain, I've often wondered, where does our success come from? The answer is synthesis, the ability to combine creativity and calculation, art and science, into whole that is much greater than the sum of its parts.

  Garry Kasparov

  Art, Creativity, Science

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.11, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Love is the internal, affectively apprehended, aspect of the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the expression and the agent of universal synthesis.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Love, Together, Facts

  "Activation of Energy: Enlightening Reflections on Spiritual Energy". Book by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 1976.

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• It is in vain that we search for an essential difference between good and evil, for their constituents are the same. The crucial distinction lies in their structure, i.e., the manner in which the pieces are assembled. Evil is disintegration, an angry juxtaposition of alienated opposites, with parts always striving to repress other parts. Good is the synthesis and reconciliation of these same pieces.

  Charles Hampden-Turner

  Lying, Opposites, Differences

  Charles Hampden-Turner (1982). “Maps of the Mind”, Macmillan Publishing Company

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• The Synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the Phænomena proceeding from them, and proving the Explanations.

  Isaac Newton

  Science, Principles, Causes

  Sir Isaac Newton (1730). “Opticks:: Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light”, p.380

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• Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

  Karl Kraus

  Art, Science, Light

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• We have three approaches at our disposal: the observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation serves to assemble the data, reflection to synthesise them and experimentation to test the results of the synthesis. The observation of nature must be assiduous, just as reflection must be profound, and experimentation accurate. These three approaches are rarely found together, which explains why creative geniuses are so rare.

  John Dewey

  Science, Reflection, Data

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• Spirit is the third, yet in such a way that one can speak of a synthesis only when the spirit is posited.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Way, Spirit, Speak

  "The Concept of Anxiety". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, p. 85, Soren Kierkegaard.

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• I have no fault to find with those who teach geometry. That science is the only one which has not produced sects; it is founded on analysis and on synthesis and on the calculus; it does not occupy itself with the probable truth; moreover it has the same method in every country.

  Frederick The Great

  Country, Truth, Science

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