He was an American-born British quantum physicist who contributed to theoretical physics, philosophy, neuropsychology,
and the Manhattan Project. During his early period, Bohm made a number of significant contributions to physics, particularly to
quantum mechanics and relativity theory. As a post-graduate at Berkeley, he developed a theory of plasmas, discovering the
electron phenomenon known now as Bohm-diffusion. Bohm continued his work in quantum physics past his retirement in 1987.
David Bohm was widely considered one of the best quantum physicists of all time
(1917 - 1992)
Indeed, the attempt to live according to the notion that the fragments are really separate is, in essence,
what has led to the growing series of extremely urgent crises that is confronting us today.
~ David Bohm
In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.
~ David Bohm
A corporation is organized as a system - it has this department, that department, that department... they don't have
any meaning separately; they only can function together. And also the body is a system. Society is a system in some sense. And so on.
~ David Bohm
But the way people commonly use the word nowadays it means something all of whose parts are mutually interdependent -
not only for their mutual action, but for their meaning and for their existence.
~ David Bohm
Individuality is only possible if it unfolds from wholeness.
~ David Bohm
And thought struggles against the results, trying to avoid those unpleasant results while keeping on with that way of
thinking. That is what I call 'sustained incoherence.
~ David Bohm
In relativity, movement is continuous, causally determinate and well defined, while in quantum mechanics it is discontinuous,
not causally determinate and not well defined.
~ David Bohm
Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others
and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture.
~ David Bohm
My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what
is generally known, not only in formal logical, mathematical terms, but also intuitively, in images, feelings,
poetic usage of language, etc.
~ David Bohm
The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.
~ David Bohm
One thus sees that a new kind of theory is needed which drops these basic commitments and at most recovers some essential
features of the older theories as abstract forms derived from a deeper reality in which what prevails in unbroken wholeness.
~ David Bohm
During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of
communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts.
~ David Bohm
People are no longer primarily in opposition, nor can they be said to be interacting, rather they are participating in
this pool of common meaning which is capable of constant development and change.
~ David Bohm
Similarly, thought is a system. That system not only includes thought and feelings, but it includes the state of the body;
it includes the whole of society - as thought is passing back and forth between people in a process by which thought evolved
from ancient times.
~ David Bohm
But you don't decide what to do with the info. Thought runs you. Thought, however, gives false info that you
are running it, that you are the one who controls thought. Whereas actually thought is the one which controls each one of us.
~ David Bohm
Then there is the further question of what is the relationship of thinking to reality. As careful attention shows,
thought itself is in an actual process of movement.
~ David Bohm
So one begins to wonder what is going to happen to the human race. Technology keeps on advancing with greater and greater
power, either for good or for destruction.
~ David Bohm
Yet, in spite of this world-wide system of linkages, there is, at this very moment, a general feeling that communication
is breaking down everywhere, on an unparalleled scale.
~ David Bohm
A new kind of mind thus beings to come into being which is based on the development of a common meaning that is
constantly transforming in the process of the dialogue.
~ David Bohm
We havent really paid much attention to thought as a process. we have engaged in thoughts, but we
have only paid attention to the content, not to the process.
~ David Bohm
Thought is creating divisions out of itself and then saying that they are there naturally.
~ David Bohm
This kind of overall way of thinking is not only a fertile source of new theoretical ideas: it is needed for the
human mind to function in a generally harmonious way, which could in turn help to make possible an orderly and stable society.
~ David Bohm
Thought is constantly creating problems that way and then trying to solve them. But as it tries to solve them it makes it
worse because it doesn't notice that it's creating them, and the more it thinks, the more problems it creates.
~ David Bohm
It looks as if the thing we use to solve our problems with is the source of our problems.
~ David Bohm
He was a German-born physicist and mathematician who was instrumental in the development of quantum mechanics. He also made contributions to solid-state physics and optics and supervised the work of a number of notable physicists in the 1920s and 30s. Max Born won the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics.
(1882 - 1970)
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
~ Charles Dickens
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
~ George Bernard Shaw
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
~ Friedrich NietzscheMore Proverbs
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