17 Insightful Quotes By David Bohm That Will Serve As A Blueprint To Boffins

Perhaps there is more sense in our nonsense and more nonsense in our 'sense' than we would care to believe.

Believe

David Bohm  

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

Think

David Bohm  

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

Think

David Bohm  

Universe consists of frozen light.

David Bohm  

Space is not empty. It is full, a plenum as opposed to a vacuum, and is the ground for the existence of everything, including ourselves. The universe is not separate from this cosmic sea of energy.

David Bohm  

Indeed, the attempt to live according to the notion that the fragments are really separate is, in essence, what has led to the growing series of extremely urgent crises that is confronting us today.

David Bohm  

Ultimately, all moments are really one, therefore now is an eternity.

David Bohm  

The question is how our own meanings are related to those of the universe as a whole. We could say that our action toward the whole universe is a result of what it means to be us.

David Bohm  

The notion that all these fragments are separately existent is evidently an illusion, and this illusion cannot do other than lead to endless conflict and confusion.

David Bohm  

So the relationship of each moment in the whole to all the others is implied by its total content: the way in which it ‘holds’ all the others enfolded within it.

Relationship

David Bohm  

All effort to bring order into disorder is disorder.

David Bohm  

Many individuals going beyond the ‘normal’ limits of fragmentation are classified as paranoid, schizoid, psychotic, etc.

David Bohm  

Science itself is demanding a new, non-fragmentary world view,

David Bohm  

Perhaps because we have at present no coherent world view, there is a widespread tendency to ignore the psychological and social importance of such questions almost altogether.

David Bohm  

Older theories become more and more unclear when one tries to use them to obtain insight into new domains.

David Bohm  

Culture – the collectively shared meaning

Culture

David Bohm  

At any particular stage in the development of science, our concepts concerning the causal relationships will then be true only relative to a certain approximation and to certain conditions.

Will

David Bohm