Robert M. Pirsig Science Quotations

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.

Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.

Science values static patterns.

The major producer of the social chaos, the indeterminacy of thought and values that rational knowledge is supposed to eliminate, is none other than science itself.

For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.