Om nya territorier

"Modern science seems to be able to make progress nor only in its own traditional line - pushing forward and forward but still within the same narrow channel - but at the same time to widen the channel and to reincorporate the great many problems previously left outside."*

Om känsla och tanke

"There has been a divorce - a necessary divorce - between scientific thought and what I have called the logic of the concrete, [...] We are witnessing the moment when this divorce will perhaps be overcome or reversed"*

Om McDonald's

'"We can easily now conceive of a time when there will be only one culture and one civilization on the entire surface of the earth. I don't believe this will happen, because there are contradictory tendencies always at work - on one hand toward homogenization and on the other towards new distinctions." *

Om gränser IV

"I never had, and still I do not have, the perception of feeling my personal identity. I appear to myself as the place where something is going on, but htere is no 'I', no 'me'. Each of us is a kind of crossroads where things happen. The crossroad is purely passive; something happens there. A different thing, equally valid, happens elsewhere. There is no choice, it is just a matter of chance." *

Om strukturalism

"Science has only two ways of proceeding: it is either reductionist or structuralist. It is reductionist when it is possible to find out that a very complex phenomena on one level can be reduced to simpler phenomena on other levels. [...] And when we are confronted with phenomena too complex [...] we can only approach them by looking to their relationships, that is, by trying to understand what kind of original system they make up." *

Om mening

"What does 'to mean' mean? It seems to me that the only answer we can give is that 'to mean' means the ability of any kind of data to be translated in a different language. I do not mean a different language like French or German, but a different word on a different level." *

Om svar

"There will always be a gap between answers science is able to give us and the new questions which the answer will raise. Science will never give us all the answers. What we can try to do is to increase very slowly the number and the quality of the answers we are able to give, and this, I think, we can do only through science." *

Om homogenisering

"I don't see how mankind can really live without some internal diversity" *

Om att jaga svans

"The more a civilization becomes homogenized, the more internal lines of separations become apparent; and what is gained on one level is lost on another." *

Om historia

"When we try to do scientific history, do we really do something scientific, or do we too remain astride our own mythology in what we are trying to make as pure history?"*