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“The purpose of scientific method is to select a single truth from among many hypothetical truths. That, more than anything else, is what science is all about. But historically science has done exactly the opposite. Through multiplication upon multiplication of facts, information, theories and hypotheses, it is science itself that is leading mankind from single absolute truths to multiple indeterminate, relative ones.”

Done Facts Purpose Mankind Information Theory Opposites Absolutes Method Relative Multiple Hypothesis Select Scientific Method Absolute Truth Hypothetical Multiplication

Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“Sometimes I'll trust my gut more than my head. Logical information might lead me in one direction and my feelings in another. Whereas I would have followed my head ten years ago, now I'm as likely or more likely to go with my gut feeling. It's ironic - you'd think the opposite would be true as you move to the top but it's not.”

Thinking Years Sometimes Feelings Might Would Be Moving Leadership Information Ten Years Ago Opposites Intuition Being True Guts Logical Ironic Leading Me One Direction Gut Feelings

Author:Donna Shalala

“As Joanna Macy reminds us, "Information by itself can increase resistance [to engagement], deepening the sense of apathy and powerlessness." Stories about particular individuals and specific situations usually have the opposite effect. By giving unwieldy problems a human face, they also bring them down to a human-and thus manageable-scale.”

Source: Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in Challenging Times

“Consciousness is not about information but about its opposite: order.”

Order Consciousness Information Opposites

Book:The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size

Source: The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size

“Someone once described the information business as exactly the opposite of sex. When it's good, it's still lousy.”

Stills Sex Information Opposites

Author:Michael Bloomberg

“Did you ever notice that people who are good with a computer don't use it for much of anything except being good with a computer? They know all about information technology, but they don't have much interest in the information. I'm the opposite.”

People Knows Use Interest Technology Information Computer Opposites Be Good Information Technology

Author:Andy Rooney

“The single biggest barrier to effective leadership is, in my view, the leadership industry itself. Instead of telling people the skills and behaviors they need to be effective in getting things done, we tell them almost the opposite - blandishments about how we wish people would be, and how we wish workplaces were. That information is worse than useless as, to the extent people believe it, they often wind up losing their jobs.”

“Personal growth and professional development require mostly being treated like an adult, which is pretty much the opposite of what happens in most workplaces. People need to be able to make decisions. To do that effectively, they need information and training in how to use it.”

People Needs Use Happens Able Growth Decision Information Development Training Adults Opposites Personal Growth Treated Workplace Professional Development

Author:Jeffrey Pfeffer

“You need strategies that help rule things out. That's the opposite of saying, "This is what my gut is telling me; let me gather information to confirm it."”

Needs Helping Information Opposites Let Me Strategy Guts

Author:Gary A. Klein

“Wrong way, Bones. The men's showers are in the opposite direction." I'll file that away with all the other information that doesn't pertain to me" was Bones' mocking reply.”

Men Way Information Opposites Bones Showers Files Wrong Way

Author:Jeaniene Frost

“Maybe children just want whatever it is they don't get. And then they grow up and give their children what they wanted, be it silence or information, affection or independence--so that child, in turn, craves something else. With every generation the pendulum swings from opposite to opposite, stillness and peace so elusive.”

Want Giving Children Wanted Turns Grows Silence Growing Up Generations Information Opposites Independence Affection Stillness Swings Crave Elusive Pendulums

Author:Laura Moriarty

“We believe that we live in the 'age of information,' that there has been an information 'explosion,' an information 'revolution.' While in a certain narrow sense this is the case, in many important ways just the opposite is true. We also live at a moment of deep ignorance, when vital knowledge that humans have always possessed about who we are and where we live seems beyond our reach. An Unenlightenment. An age of missing information.”

Way Believe Humans Has Beens Important Moments Seems Age Certain Cases Missing Information Ignorance Revolution Opposites Who We Are Possessed Explosions

Book:The end of nature

Source: The end of nature