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“ ”Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20–20 hindsight. It’s good for seeing where you’ve been. It’s good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can’t tell you where you ought to go, unless where you ought to go is a continuation of where you were going in the past. Creativity, originality, inventiveness, intuition, imagination — “unstuckness,” in other words — are completely outside its domain.
About Robert M. Pirsig
Robert Maynard Pirsig (6 September 1928 – 24 April 2017) was an American philosopher and novelist, most famous for his novel Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance in which he proposed what has become known as his Metaphysics of Quality (MoQ).
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Additional quotes by Robert M. Pirsig
When you’ve got a Chautauqua in your head, it’s extremely hard not to inflict it on innocent people.
not sure of much of anything these days. Maybe that’s why I talk so much.
Stuckness shouldn't be avoided. It's the physic predecessor of all real understanding.