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Then there is the further question of what is the relationship of thinking to reality. As careful attention shows, thought itself is in an actual process of movement. ↗

— David Bohm

#actual process #attention #careful #further #itself

This kind of overall way of thinking is not only a fertile source of new theoretical ideas: it is needed for the human mind to function in a generally harmonious way, which could in turn help to make possible an orderly and stable society. ↗

— David Bohm

#fertile #function #generally #harmonious #help

Yet, in spite of this world-wide system of linkages, there is, at this very moment, a general feeling that communication is breaking down everywhere, on an unparalleled scale. ↗

— David Bohm

#communication #down #everywhere #feeling #general

Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it. ↗

— Niels Bohr

#change #deep #difficulty #every #find

How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress. ↗

— Niels Bohr

#how #making #met #now #paradox

A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself. ↗

— Niels Bohr

#itself #just #looking #physicist #way

No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. ↗

— Niels Bohr

#just #logical #thinking #you

I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy. ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#dumb #guy #i #i believe #i believe that

The secret story is the one we'll never know, although we're living it from day to day, thinking we're alive, thinking we've got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn't matter. ↗

— Roberto Bolano

#although #control #day #day to day #got

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. ↗

— W. E. B. Du Bois

#amused #contempt #eyes #looking #looks