Quotes by Howard Bloom

“People are supposed to read it, maybe learn a little bit, maybe have a chuckle, and then have an interesting conversation. If thats what we do, weve accomplished our purpose.”

“Theres plenty of material out there.”

“It still seems somewhat of a pure event, something that athletes are doing for the pure joy of sports and winning.”

“You go to Indiana and you cant help but feel the pulse of the event everywhere.”

Your mind is like Heraclitus river. Your mind, in fact, is like nineteenth-century father of psychology William James stream of consciousness, a bubbling, babbling brook. Your mind constantly produces different currents of associations, different swirls of thought, and different moods.

A = A is a simplification, one so radical that it sometimes utterly distorts reality. It skins reality alive. Is A = A useful? Does logic come in handy? Is math a magnificent symbolic system with which to comprehend whats around us? And is math based on A = A? Yes. Absolutely. But math and logic are just that - very, very simplified representations. Symbolic systems with massive powers. But symbolic systems that sometimes do enormous injustice to the richness of that which they attempt to represent. Symbol systems that sometimes do enormous injustice to sciences greatest mystery, cosmic creativity.