Space is not empty. It is full, a plenum as opposed to a vacuum, and is the ground for the existence of everything, including ourselves. The universe is not separate from this cosmic sea of energy.
- David Bohm (Or we could say that matter is but the foam on that sea of cosmic energy...)
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
From the outset, however, this whole controversy has been plagued by tacit assumptions, very often of a philosophical rather than a physical character...
- David Bohm
Deep down the consciousness of mankind is one. This is a virtual certainty because even in the vacuum matter is one; and if we don't see this, it's because we are blinding ourselves to it.
- David Bohm
The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.
- 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
All matter is frozen light.
- David Bohm
In the long run, it is far more dangerous to adhere to illusion than to face what the actual fact is.
- David Bohm
On the contrary, when one works in terms of the implicate order, one begins with the undivided wholeness of the universe, and the task of science is to derive the parts through abstraction from the whole, explaining them as approximately separable, stable and recurrent, but externally related elements making up relatively autonomous sub-totalities, which are to be described in terms of an explicate order.
- David Bohm
The notion of a separate organism is clearly an abstraction, as is also its boundary. Underlying all this is unbroken wholeness even though our civilization has developed in such a way as to strongly emphasize the separation into parts.
- 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
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
Ultimately, all moments are really one, therefore now is an eternity.
- David Bohm
David Bohm, Ph.D.
David Bohm was Einstein's successor as a deep thinker in physics.
That's according to Einstein...
Bohm conceived of an inner Implicate Order complementary to the outward Explicate Order that is more apparent and measurable.
His unorthodox contributions spanned the fields of theoretical physics, philosophy of the mind, and neuro-psychology, in addition to the Manhattan Project.
Ultimately, the entire universe (with all its 'particles', including those constituting human beings, their laboratories, observing instruments, etc.) has to be understood as a single undivided whole, in which analysis into separately and independently existent parts has no fundamental status.
- David Bohm
Individuality is only possible if it unfolds from wholeness.
- 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
Thought is creating divisions out of itself and then saying that they are there naturally.
- David Bohm
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
- David Bohm
In dialogue, however, nobody is trying to win. Everybody wins if anybody wins.
- David Bohm
Real dialogue is where two or more people become willing to suspend their certainty in each other's presence.
- David Bohm
We can't simply take the way things seem and just work on that, because that would be another kind of mistake thought makes - taking the surface and calling it the reality.
- David Bohm