“At present we’re snowed under with an irrational expansion of blind data-gathering in the sciences because there’s no rational format for any understanding of scientific creativity. At present we are also snowed under with a lot of stylishness in the arts … thin art … because there’s very little assimilation or extension into underlying form. We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with no artistic knowledge, and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at all. And the result is not just bad, it is ghastly. The time for real reunification of art and technology is really long overdue.” ArtPhilosophyScienceQualityTechnologyUnityZen Author:Robert Prisig
“That is what caring really is, a feeling of identification with what one's doing. When one has this feeling then he also sees the inverse side of caring - quality itself.” PhilosophyQualityCaringZen Author:Robert Prisig
“You point to something as having quality and the quality seems to go away.” PhilosophyQualityZenImpermanence Author:Robert Prisig
“The inability of science to grasp quality as an object of inquiry makes it impossible for science to provide a scale of values.” PhilosophyScienceQualityZen Author:Robert Prisig