Synthesis Quotes

“When " the thesis and antithesis" of our lives can be reconciled through "synthesis" and clashing ideas or situations resolved, we can break free from conflicts and open a new world of comprehensive views. ("Imbroglio")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Most of the brain's work is done while the brain's owner is ostensibly thinking about something else, so sometimes you have to deliberately find something else to think and talk about.”
― Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon

“The East has failed because it tried meditation without love. The West has failed because it tried love without meditation. My whole effort is to give you a synthesis, the whole—which means meditation plus love.”
― Osho, Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously

“Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality. Though different traditions may emphasize different aspects, it is only the interplay of these antithetic forces and the struggle for their synthesis that constitute the life, usefulness, and supreme value of mathematical science.”
― Richard Courant, What Is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods

“Life is not found in atoms or molecules or genes as such, but in organization; not in symbiosis but in synthesis.”
― Edwin Grant Conklin

“Any damn fool can make something complex; it takes a genius to make something simple.”
― Pete Seeger

“Talent perceives differences; genius, unity”
― Yeats, William Butler

“The true Renaissance person is endowed with panoramic attention.... The habit of noticing the ensemble of everything and its constituent parts is a matter of will, not of innate aptitude. It involves the conscious noticing of things and the gaps that separate and connect them.”
― Christy Wampole

“A close and connected observation of nature reveals something more like a Celtic knot: a form without end or beginning. Not a system, but a synthesis.”
― Conor Detwiler, Undividing: Returning to Oneness for the First Time

“Il faut toute une vide d'analyse pour une heure de synthèse”
― Numa Denis Fustel De Coulanges

“The being of any group from the point of view of the group members themselves is very curious. If I think of you and him as together with me, and others again as not with me, I have already formed two rudimentary syntheses, namely, We and Them. However, this private act of synthesis is not in itself a group. In order that We come into being as a group, it is necessary not only that I regard, let us say, you and him and me as We, but that you and he also think of us as We. I shall call such an act of experiencing a number of persons as a single collectivity, an act of rudimentary group synthesis.”
― R. D. Laing

“Analysis and synthesis are different mental muscles to serve different purposes.”
― Pearl Zhu, Thinkingaire: 100 Game Changing Digital Mindsets to Compete for the Future

“Mainly we were just curious about how the new archaeological evidence that had been building up for the last thirty years might change our notions of early human history, especially the parts bound up with debates on the origins of social inequality. Before long, though, we realized that what we were doing was potentially important, because hardly anyone else in our fields seemed to be doing this work of synthesis. Often, we found ourselves searching in vain for books that we assumed must exist but, it turns out, simply didn’t – for instance, compendia of early cities that lacked top-down governance, or accounts of how democratic decision-making was conducted in Africa or the Americas, or comparisons of what we’ve called ‘heroic societies’. The literature is riddled with absences.”
― David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

“Our minds are not infinite; and as the volume of the world's knowledge increases, we tend more and more to confine ourselves, each to his special sphere of interest and to the specialised metaphor belonging to it. The analytic bias of the last three centuries has immensely encouraged this tendency, and it is now very difficult for the artist to speak the language of the theologian, or the scientist the language of either. But the attempt must be made; and there are signs everywhere that the human mind is once more beginning to move. towards a synthesis of experience.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, The Mind of the Maker

“If the sweat and blood of all faiths seeped into the same soil, then a synthesis must take root”
― Shahrukh Husain, A Restless Wind

“From a cognitive perspective, Systems Thinking integrates analysis and synthesis.”
― Pearl Zhu, Digital Hybridity

“SYNTHESIS IS ACTUALLY MOST IMPORTANT THING IN LIFE.”
― Dax Bamania

“many hands make light work, but nine women can't make a baby in a month...”
― Anonymous

“Sabism is a modern synthesis, resynthesis, poetry of perspective, nugget of facts, conglomeration, cultart, the coarsening of the “new reality”, proart, new nature, perturbation, grandart, euphony, exaltation, multiculture, word act, triad, genesis.”
― Vladan Kuzmanovic

“Wisdom, like compassion, often seems to require of us that we hold multiple realities in our consciousness at once. This may be the task we must begin to engage if we wish to gain a deeper understanding of the evolution of human consciousness, and the history of the Western mind in particular: to see that long intellectual and spiritual journey, moving through stages of increasing differentiation and complexity, as having brought about both a progressive ascent to autonomy and a tragic fall from unity – and, perhaps, as having prepared the way for a synthesis on a new level. From this perspective, the two paradigms reflect opposite but equally essential aspects of an immense dialectical process, an evolutionary drama that has been unfolding for thousands of years and that now appears to be reaching a critical, perhaps climactic moment of transformation. (p. 14)”
― Richard Tarnas, Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View

“Like fueling muscles, from breakdown to synthesis to recovery, nourish mind.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Rep By Rep

“We are entering into the era of synthesis: when the bringing together of old knowledge in new ways for practical purposes will be more transformative than much of the new knowledge.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.