Direct Synthesis

Famous quotes containing the words direct and/or synthesis:

“I should say that the most prominent scientific men of our country, and perhaps of this age, are either serving the arts and not pure science, or are performing faithful but quite subordinate labors in particular departments. They make no steady and systematic approaches to the central fact.... There is wanting constant and accurate observation with enough of theory to direct and discipline it. But, above all, there is wanting genius.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“In order to begin an analysis, there must already be a synthesis present in the mind.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)