Robert M. Pirsig Quotes About Science

Quotes about: Science

• For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Science, Facts, Infinity

• The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Truth, Science, Discovery

  Robert M. Pirsig (2009). “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values”, p.6, Harper Collins

• Science values static patterns.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Science, Patterns, Static

  Robert M. Pirsig (1991). “LILA An Inquriry into Morals”

• Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Knowledge, Science, Thinking

  1974 Zen and theArt of MotorcycleMaintenance, pt.3, ch.24.

• One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Science, Geometry, Convenient

  1974 Zen and theArt of MotorcycleMaintenance, pt.3, ch.22.

• The major producer of the social chaos, the indeterminacy of thought and values that rational knowledge is supposed to eliminate, is none other than science itself.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Science, Chaos, Social

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