Synthesis Quotes - Page 3

• 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

  21 Copy quote

• Both the man of science and the man of art live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it. Both, as a measure of their creation, have always had to do with the harmonization of what is new with what is familiar, with the balance between novelty and synthesis, with the struggle to make partial order in total chaos.... This cannot be an easy life.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Art, Struggle, Science

  J. Robert Oppenheimer (2013). “Uncommon Sense”, p.87, Springer Science & Business Media

  36 Copy quote

  Show source

• To know is not too demanding: it merely requires memory and time. But to understand is quite a different matter: it requires intellectual ability and training, a self conscious awareness of what one is doing, experience in techniques of analysis and synthesis, and above all, perspective.

  Carroll Quigley

  Memories, Self, Perspective

  Carroll Quigley (1979). “The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis”, Liberty Fund Inc.

  29 Copy quote

  Show source

• A popular cliche in philosophy says that science is pure analysis or reductionism, like taking the rainbow to pieces; and art is pure synthesis, putting the rainbow together. This is not so. All imagination begins by analyzing nature.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Art, Philosophy, Imagination

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We develop all our sciences, archeology, cosmology, psychology, we tabulate and classify and cling to our sacred definitions, our divisions, without any attempt to synthesis, without the humility to see that these are only parts of a total knowledge. ... But somehow we ought to be able to keep the idea of the totality of experience and knowledge at the back of our minds even though the front's busy from morning til night with the life cycle of the liver fluke.

  Maureen Duffy

  Morning, Knowledge, Humility

  6 Copy quote

• The growing child must derive a vitalizing sense of reality from the awareness that his individual way of mastering experience (his ego synthesis) is a successful variant of a group identity and is in accord with its space-time and life plan.

  Erik Erikson

  Children, Successful, Reality

  Erik H. Erikson (1994). “Identity and the Life Cycle”, p.21, W. W. Norton & Company

  41 Copy quote

  Show source

• Love is beyond description; but not beyond demonstrating. Love is beyond the mind because it is always new. Any product of the mind is a reaction of the past, a synthesis of what is old. So the mind is a modifier, a reactor; a renovator, but it cannot create the new.

  Barry Long

  Life, Past, Love Is

  "Knowing Yourself: The True in the False". Book by Barry Long, 1996.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Through photography, both artist and scientist can find a common denominator in their search for the synthesis of modern vision in time, space and structure.

  Ernst Haas

  Photography, Artist, Space

  4 Copy quote

• I don't think that anything of any consequence is known a priori: all our knowledge is built up by modifying the lore passed on to us by our ancestors in light of our experiences, and the best a philosopher can do is to learn as much about what has been discovered in various empirical fields, and use it to try to craft an improved synthesis.

  Philip Kitcher

  Thinking, Light, Trying

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Evolution: The Modern Synthesis.

  Julian Huxley

  Evolution, Modern

  14 Copy quote

• if you pursue the truth far enough you always wind up in the land of paradox. You reach a point where the apparent truth divides into two opposing truths and then you have to try to reach beyond them to grasp the ultimate truth, their synthesis.

  Susan Howatch

  Wind, Land, Two

  Susan Howatch, Bruce Johnson, Charles Adolph Huttar (2005). “Scandalous Truths: Essays by and about Susan Howatch”, p.81, Susquehanna University Press

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• A house should be a synthesis of comfort, practicality, and tradition.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  House, Comfort, Tradition

  27 Copy quote

• Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity.

  Rebecca West

  Unity, Analysis, Literature

  22 Copy quote

• The ideal is a synthesis of the different cultures that have come to stay in India, that have influenced Indian life, and that, in their turn, have themselves been influenced by the spirit of the soil.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Culture, Soil, India

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha in South Africa”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• New York is ultimately not the synthesis but merely the sum of its unfathomable subjectivities, its personal histories, its uncategorisable figures.

  Jonathan Dee

  New York, Subjectivity, Personal History

  4 Copy quote

• The Fascist conception of the State is all-embracing; outside of it no human or spiritual values can exist, much less have value. Thus understood, Fascism is totalitarian, and the Fascist State -- a synthesis and a unit inclusive of all values -- interprets, develops, and potentiates the whole life of a people.

  Benito Mussolini

  Spiritual, People, Fascists

  21 Copy quote

• Man is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation which relates itself to itself.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Men, Self, Two

  "The Sickness Unto Death". Book by Søren Kierkegaard, "A. That Despair is the Sickness unto Death", 1849.

  41 Copy quote

  Show source

• Mental synthesis of psychic content in the unity of a moment-consciousness is a fundamental principle of psychology.

  Boris Sidis

  Psychics, Psychology, Unity

  Boris Sidis (1914). “The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology”

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's all about synthesis, you don't have to be a real musician. You just synthesize your own reality, synthesize your own talents. Welcome to the electronic age.

  Klayton

  Real, Age, Musician

  6 Copy quote

• The greatest challenge of community life is to create synthesis, embracing diversity in a unified whole, resolving differences with the healing spirit of love and dedication to the good of the whole.

  Corinne McLaughlin

  Healing, Dedication, Differences

  Corinne McLaughlin, Gordon Davidson (1985). “Builders of the Dawn: Community Lifestyles in a Changing World”

  45 Copy quote

  Show source

• Lorenzo de' Medici seeks highly skilled, aesthetically oriented individual to conceive and implement several major public projects. You are a generalist with sound training in structural engineering, synthesis of pigments and Christian iconography. Some climbing involved

  Michelangelo

  Christian, Climbing, Engineering

  13 Copy quote

• Any good photograph is a successful synthesis of technique and art.

  Andreas Feininger

  Photography, Art, Successful

  Andreas Feininger (1982). “Total photography”, Not Avail

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• Cubism had been an analysis of the object and an attempt to put it before us in its totality; both as analysis and as synthesis, it was a criticism of appearance. Surrealism transmuted the object, and suddenly a canvas became an apparition: a new figuration, a real transfiguration.

  Octavio Paz

  Real, Criticism, Analysis

  Octavio Paz (1973). “Alternating Current”, p.31, Arcade Publishing

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• The new shopping malls make possible the synthesis of all consumer activities, not least of which are shopping, flirting with objects, idle wandering, and all the permutations of these.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Flirting, Shopping, Malls

  Jean Baudrillard, Francesco Proto, Keith Broadfoot (2006). “Mass Identity Architecture: Architectural Writings of Jean Baudrillard”, Academy Press

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• What we deplore is not that the gate of western knowledge was thrown open to Indians, but that such knowledge was imported to India at the sacrifice of our own cultural heritage. What was needed was a proper synthesis between the two systems and not neglect, far less destruction, of the Indian base.

  Syama Prasad Mukherjee

  Sacrifice, Two, India

  Speech delivered at Gurkula Visvavidyalaya Convocation on 25th April 1943, "Educational Speeches" by Dr. Shyamaprasad Mookerjee, A.Mukherjee & Co. (Private) Ltd., 2 College Square, Kolkata 700 012, 1959.

  28 Copy quote

  Show source