Unified Perspective Quotes

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it.

When you're on a scale like we are in 170 countries and hundreds of thousands of people, you have a single point of view.

We tend to talk about the world in a myriad of ways - a microscopic world of elementary particles, a biological world of organisms and evolution, a social world of morality and meaning. But it's all the same underlying world. That's the underlying theme of 'The Big Picture.'

Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.

What's my philosophy? In a word, integral.

I insist upon the view that 'all is waves'.

Science itself is badly in need of integration and unification. The tendency is more and more the other way ... Only the graduate student, poor beast of burden that he is, can be expected to know a little of each. As the number of physicists increases, each specialty becomes more self-sustaining and self-contained. Such Balkanization carries physics, and indeed, every science further away, from natural philosophy, which, intellectually, is the meaning and goal of science.

I was drawn to biology and history and, of course, art. And I loved languages. The biggest problem I had is that I wasn't taught about the connections between all these things. I think that would have given life a lot more meaning and it would be a lot more enjoyable.

There is a property in the horizon which no man has, but he whose eyes can integrate all the parts,--that is, the poet.

This required the development of a view which allowed one to integrate research with belief, thing with person, fact with aesthetics, knowledge with application of knowledge.

Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life.

By going one step further back in thought, discordant opinions are reconciled by being seen to be two extremes of one principle, and we can never go so far back as to preclude a still higher vision.