Quotes by Robert M. Pirsig

If you run from technology, it will chase you.

Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.

To live for some future goal is shallow. Its the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

“The truth knocks on the door and you say, Go away, Im looking for the truth, and so it goes away. Puzzling.”

“For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses. ”

“The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something you actually don’t know.”

“The TV scientist who mutters sadly, The experiment is a failure; we have failed to achieve what we had hoped for, is suffering mainly from a bad script writer. An experiment is never a failure solely because it fails to achieve predicted results. An experiment is a failure only when it also fails adequately to test the hypothesis in question, when the data it produces dont prove anything one way or another.”