Synthesis Quotes

• 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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• It seems plain and self-evident, yet it needs to be said: the isolated knowledge obtained by a group of specialists in a narrow field has in itself no value whatsoever, but only in its synthesis with all the rest of knowledge and only inasmuch as it really contributes in this synthesis toward answering the demand, "Who are we?"

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Knowledge, Self, Demand

  "Science and Humanism". Book by Erwin Schrodinger, 1951.

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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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• 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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• Creativity is the production of meaning by synthesis.

  Alex Faickney Osborn

  Creativity, Productions

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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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• True knowledge is that which establishes harmony and synthesis between ience on the one hand and spirituality and ethics on the other.

  Sai Baba

  Educational, Hands, Ethics

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

  Joan Z. Borysenko

  Creativity, Research, Problem

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• Any product of the mind is a reaction of the past, a synthesis of what is old.

  Barry Long

  Past, Mind, Reactions

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• ...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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly, but take every building to pieces, and challenge every feature. Learn to distinguish the curious from the beautiful. Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. 'Think simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Beautiful, Thinking, Challenges

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

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• Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

  Carl Sandburg

  Poetry, Literature, Biscuits

  Atlantic Monthly Mar. 1923 "Poetry Considered"

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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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