„The search for patterns without critical analysis, and rigid skepticism without a search for patterns, are the antipodes of incomplete science. The effective pursuit of knowledge requires both functions.“

— Carl Sagan

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„There is no way to tell whether the patterns extracted by the right hemisphere are real or imagined without subjecting them to left-hemisphere scrutiny. On the other hand, mere critical thinking, without creative and intuitive insights, without the search for new patterns, is sterile and doomed. To solve complex problems in changing circumstances requires the activity of both cerebral hemispheres: the path to the future lies through the corpus callosum.“
— Carl Sagan
„Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world.“
— Gloria Steinem
„Both individuals and communities must be able to possess the skills and knowledge required to function productively in the changing world.“
— Sukavich Rangsitpol
„Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.“
— Buckminster Fuller