Book 3. (1 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 13 | 25 | View more quotes about second">Second, they tend in many matters to have a penchant for complexity, regarding it as more elegant than simplicity. |
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Book 3. (7 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 13 | 22 | As far as it goes this was not bad guesswork on my part, but deeper reasons underlay the matter. |
| 13 | 23 | First, I did not know then how Priest-Kings learned. |
| 13 | 24 | They do not learn as we do. |
| 13 | 25 | Second, they tend in many matters to have a penchant for complexity, regarding it as more elegant than simplicity. |
| 13 | 26 | One practical result of this seems to be that they have never been tempted to oversimplify physical reality, biological processes or the operations of a functioning mind. |
| 13 | 27 | It would never occur to them that nature is ultimately simple, and if they found it so they would be rather disappointed. |
| 13 | 28 | They view nature as a set of interrelated continua rather than as a visually oriented organism is tempted to do, as a network of discrete objects which must be somehow, mysteriously, related to one another. |
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As far as it goes this was not bad guesswork on my part, but deeper reasons underlay the matter.
First, I did not know then how Priest-Kings learned.
They do not learn as we do.
Second, they tend in many matters to have a penchant for complexity, regarding it as more elegant than simplicity.
One practical result of this seems to be that they have never been tempted to oversimplify physical reality, biological processes or the operations of a functioning mind.
It would never occur to them that nature is ultimately simple, and if they found it so they would be rather disappointed.
They view nature as a set of interrelated continua rather than as a visually oriented organism is tempted to do, as a network of discrete objects which must be somehow, mysteriously, related to one another.
- (Priest-Kings of Gor)