David Bohm Quotes

Everything is fraught with danger. I love technology and I love science. It's just always all in the way you use it. So there's no - you can't really blame anything on the technology. It's just the way people use it, and it always has been.

If we have learned anything at all in this century, it is that all new technologies will be put to use, sooner or later, for better or worse, as it is in our nature to do.

In my work, I am not attempting to predict the future. I am only pointing out what is possible with the intelligent application and humane use of science and technology. This does not call for scientists to manage society. What I suggest is applying the methods of science to the social system for the benefit of human kind and the environment.

Technology isn't the villain and the people aren't often really the villain so much as they're weak.

I am not a Luddite. I am suspicious of technology. I am perfectly aware of its benefits, but I also try to pay attention to some of the negative effects.

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.

I love technology, and I love science. It's just always all in the way you use it. So there's no - you can't really blame anything on the technology. It's just the way people use it, and it always has been.

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.

I discovered how science is truly a universal language, one that forges new connections among individuals and opens the mind to ideas that go far beyond the classroom.

Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these - it's a state of mind.

We are in a war on ignorance, a war on scientific ignorance.

Technology itself is neither good nor bad. People are good or bad.

One who understands the relationships between the human heart and the human mind will always out-hack those who chase after an ever-changing technology.

I try not to be surprised. Surprise is the public face of a mind that has been closed.

Science robs men of wisdom and usually converts them into phantom beings loaded up with facts.

WHAT a person thinks is determined by HOW a person thinks.

Science is the key to our future, and if you don’t believe in science, then you’re holding everybody back. And it’s fine if you as an adult want to run around pretending or claiming that you don’t believe in evolution, but if we educate a generation of people who don’t believe in science, that’s a recipe for disaster. We talk about the Internet. That comes from science. Weather forecasting. That comes from science. The main idea in all of biology is evolution. To not teach it to our young people is wrong.

The appearance of things to the mind is the standard of every action to man.

"Objective" means that, in a confrontation with the evidence, you would be willing to change your own mind.

What's most interesting about trying to figure out AI is the questions that it forces you to ask about the nature of consciousness.

It is doubtless impossible to approach any human problems with a mind free from bias.

It is important not to give the appearance of a predisposed mind. And it is more important not to let the mind become predisposed.

One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind.

A crude mind could easily think: something is valid, therefore it is true.

I had learnt from experience that many false opinions may be exchanged for true ones, without in the least altering the habits of mind of which false opinions are made.