Quotes About Synthesis

Innovation is taking two things that already exist and putting them together in a new way.

Knowledge comes by taking things apart, analysis. But wisdom comes by putting things together.

We take for granted how our mind puts everything together.

The more we are able to draw upon our right brain capacity, the more fully we will be able to visualize, to synthesize, to transcend time and present circumstances, to project a holistic picture of what we want to do and to be in life.

Once key ideas from idea-spaces that otherwise had little contact with one another were connected, they began, quasi-autonomously, to make new sense in terms of one another, leading to the emergence of a whole that was more than the sum of its parts.

Good ideas may not want to be free, but they do want to connect, fuse, recombine.

Good ideas are not conjured out of thin air; they are built out of a collection of existing parts, the composition of which expands (and, occasionally, contracts) over time. Some of those parts are conceptual: ways of solving problems, or new definitions of what constitutes a problem in the first place. Some of them are, literally, mechanical parts.

La síntesis es la antorcha del genio.

Like all forms of learning,29 extinction requires the synthesis of proteins in neurons that are learning and storing the new information. In this case, protein synthesis is required in both the infralimbic cortex30 and the amygdala31 for the effects of extinction to persist as a long-term memory.

Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages.

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?

I'd like to see what fraction of things that chemists have figured out we could actually teach nature to do. Then we really could replace chemical factories with bacteria.

I try very hard to handle things equally: ideas, materials, and images.

La sintesi è possibile solo quando c'è la conoscenza, altrimenti diventa superficialità.

Capitalism forgets that life is social. And the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of communism nor the antithesis of capitalism, but in a higher synthesis.

Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It's exactly the same.

I guess my tendency is to think essentially that the new wrinkles won't do the job if the old major idea didn't, and so you have to try something different. Then maybe they can all be combined in some coherent piece.

Chemists have always been in the business of taking atoms and putting them together with other atoms with precisely defined connections.

Facts - all facts - explain and confirm each other. They are only partially true until you link them together.

Sometimes, in a part, everything comes together.

In putting images together I become active, and excitement is of another order - synthesis overshadows analysis.

Continual improvisation on a theme is a more useful way to think of how to bring the various parts of life together.

Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.

Over time, we transform a collection of parts into a comprehension of wholes.