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Quotes About Synthesis

That is the ultimate synthesis - when Zorba becomes a Buddha. I am trying to create here not Zorba the Greek but Zorba the Buddha.
~ Rajneesh
What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?
~ Manuel Puig
For nitrates are not the land, nor phosphates and the length of fiber in the cotton is not the land. Carbon is not a man, nor salt nor water nor calcium. He is all these, but he is much more, much more; and the land is so much more than its analysis.
~ John Steinbeck
The affair between Boston and Ted Williams has been no mere summer romance; it has been a marriage, composed of spats, mutual disappointments, and, toward the end, a mellowing hoard of shared memories. It falls into three stages, which may be termed Youth, Maturity, and Age; or Thesis, Antithesis, and Synthesis; or Jason, Achilles, and Nestor.
~ John Updike
To the dialectical partner, the question is never Who is right? Rather, the question is How do our views fit together? Nothing stands independent of its opposite; rather, the two positions have common elements that allow harmonizing and blending.
~ Unknown
The story of theology in the Civil War was a story of how a deeply entrenched intellectual synthesis divided against itself, even as its proponents were reassuring combatants on either side that each enjoyed a unique standing before God and each exercised a unique role as the true bearer of the nation's Christian civilization.
~ Unknown
Because the work of Chalcedon faithfully translated scriptural teaching, the Hellenistic world could now express the wonders of God in its own conceptual language. Both synthesis and translation would need to happen again and again and again.
~ Unknown
First you follow recipes to the letter; then you begin to synthesize some of those recipes, comparing one with another and drawing on what you see as the best of them; then you develop a repertoire of recipes you've made your own. Finally you throw away the books, start shopping, open the refrigerator, and cook. You cook like a grandmother, or like anyone with experience.
~ Mark Bittman
The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
~ Terence McKenna
We take the very best of what people do, synthesise it down, make it learnable and share it with each other - and that is what the real future of what NLP will be and its gonna stay that way!
~ Richard Bandler
Genome design is going to be a key part of the future. That's why we need fast, cheap, accurate DNA synthesis, so you can make a lot of iterations of something and test them.
~ Craig Venter
We divide the roles of mystic, doctor, therapist, artist, herbalist, naturalist, and storyteller into separate, often inimical professions. In most other societies, there was one word, one job assignment, for somebody who was all these things at once.
~ Martha N. Beck
It now seems possible, even necessary, to reconnect art with science, synthesis with analysis, magic with logic.
~ Marty Neumeier
Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.
~ Teilhard de Chardin
The true termary dialectic does not realize the synthesis, not even in the future...realization...would be death...The dialectic requires permanent revolution, that is, the self-contestimg of power, which, therefore, should not be considered as absolute
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
A pile of narrow intelligences will never add up to a general intelligence. General intelligence isn't about the number of abilities, but about the integration between those abilities.
~ Unknown
Meritocracy is about recreating science's success in the political, social, economic and religious spheres. It's about rational thinking, evidence-based policies and continual experimentation. It's about deliberately creating institutions of thesis, antithesis and synthesis to provide an engine of progress that drives the world relentlessly forward to an omega point of perfection
~ Unknown
if you don't synthesize knowledge, scientific journals become spare-arts catalogues for machines that are never built," he explained. "I am as good a diagnostician of ecosystems as any doctor is of human beings, and I'm not on any damn ego trip when I say that. Sometimes I wish I did't have the knowledge hat I do, because I can get pretty damn glum.
~ Unknown
survey—preparation and overview, or introduction • contextual analysis—consideration of the historical and literary contexts of the text • formal analysis—of the form, structure, and movement of the text • detailed analysis—of the various parts of the text • synthesis—of the text as a whole • reflection—on the text today • expansion and refinement—of the initial exegesis
~ Unknown
the artificial things are as natural as the natural things.
~ Michael Shellenberger
Even among schemata, competition leavened with cooperation is sometimes both possible and advantageous. In the realm of theories, for instance, competing notions are not always mutually exclusive; sometimes a synthesis of several ideas comes much closer to the thruth than any of them does individually.
~ Murray Gell-Mann
Vargas Llosas's fiction, in synthesis, tries to answer the question of what happens when two different and separated worlds are placed in confrontation.
~ Unknown
We should imitate bees," Seneca wrote, "and we should keep in separate compartments whatever we have collected from our diverse reading, for things conserved separately keep better. Then, diligently applying all the resources of our native talent, we should mingle all the various nectars we have tasted, and then turn them into a single sweet substance, in such a way that, even if it is apparent where it originated, it appears quite different from what it was in its original state.
~ Unknown
Der Geschichte ist nicht der Ort, wo die Antagonismen sich auflösen, sondern wo sei vergessen werden. Dir irdischen Siege sind nicht optimistische dialektische Synthesen, sondern tragisches empirisches Verschwinden eines der Elemente des vorhergehenden Antagonismus.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila