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"Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it. "
— Leo Tolstoy (War and Peace)

tags: fragmented, reductionism, science

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"We believe that religions are basically the same…they only differ on matters of creation, sin, heaven, hell, God, and salvation."
— Steve Turner (Up to Date)

tags: doctrine, pluralism, reductionism, religion

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"To make progress in understanding all this, we probably need to begin with simplified (oversimplified?) models and ignore the critics' tirade that the real world is more complex. The real world is always more complex, which has the advantage that we shan't run out of work."
— John Ball

tags: determinism, oversimplification, reductionism

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