In the long run, it is far more dangerous to adhere to illusion than to face what the actual fact is.
David BohmPerhaps there is more sense in our nonsense and more nonsense in our 'sense' than we would care to believe.
David BohmThought reflexes get conditioned very strongly, and they are very hard to change. And the also interfere. A reflex may connect to the endorphins and produce an impulse to hold that whole pattern forther. In other words, it produces a defensive reflex. Not merely is it stuck because it's chemically so well built up, but also there is a defensive reflex which defends against evidence which might weaken it. Thus it all happens, one reflex after another after another. It's just a vast system of reflexes. And they form a 'structure' as they get more rigid.
David BohmThe ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.
David BohmThere is no reason why an extraphysical general principle is necessarily to be avoided, since such principles could conceivably serve as useful working hypotheses. For the history of scientific research is full of examples in which it was very fruitful indeed to assume that certain objects or elements might be real, long before any procedures were known which would permit them to be observed directly.
David Bohm