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"11 David Bohm Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 20 December 1917. Died: 27 October 1992 | Scientist | Physicist |

The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.

Ability Differently Gained Important
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But the way people commonly use the word nowadays it means something all of whose parts are mutually interdependent - not only for their mutual action, but for their meaning and for their existence.

Action Commonly Parts Existence
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But you don't decide what to do with the info. Thought runs you. Thought, however, gives false info that you are running it, that you are the one who controls thought. Whereas actually thought is the one which controls each one of us.

Actually Controls Decide Each
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Similarly, thought is a system. That system not only includes thought and feelings, but it includes the state of the body; it includes the whole of society - as thought is passing back and forth between people in a process by which thought evolved from ancient times.

Ancient Between Body Evolved
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So one begins to wonder what is going to happen to the human race. Technology keeps on advancing with greater and greater power, either for good or for destruction.

Advancing Begins Destruction Either
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This is another major feature of thought: Thought doesn't know it is doing something and then it struggles against it is doing. It doesn't want to know that it is doing it.

Against Another Doing Feature
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Thought has been constantly evolving and we can't say when that system began.
Began Constantly System Evolving
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Thought is creating divisions out of itself and then saying that they are there naturally.

Creating Divisions Itself Naturally
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In relativity, movement is continuous, causally determinate and well defined, while in quantum mechanics it is discontinuous, not causally determinate and not well defined.

Continuous Defined Mechanics Movement
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Individuality is only possible if it unfolds from wholeness.

Individuality Only Possible Unfolds
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In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.

Clue Man Microcosm Sense
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David Bohm Quotes & Sayings