Science Quote by David Bohm

Bohm is poking a hole in the most flattering myth modern people tell about themselves: that we are the CEO of our own minds. He frames “info” as something already processed and packaged, then makes the unsettling move of denying us the final step we assume we own - deciding what to do with it. The provocation isn’t mystical; it’s almost mechanistic. Thought is treated less like a tool and more like an automated system that keeps producing outputs, including the comforting dashboard display that says “you are in control.”

The line “Thought runs you” is blunt on purpose. It reads like a diagnostic, not a metaphor, and it reflects Bohm’s larger interest in hidden orders: the structures beneath what appears obvious. The subtext is cultural as much as psychological. In a society that worships “critical thinking,” productivity hacks, and the sovereign individual, Bohm suggests the self is largely a narrative generated by thought itself - a story thought tells to secure its own authority. That’s why the “false info” matters: thought doesn’t merely mislead about the world; it misleads about who is steering.

Contextually, this fits Bohm’s late-career work at the border of physics, philosophy, and dialogue practices, where he argued that fragmentation - in science, in politics, in identity - is sustained by unexamined mental reflexes. The quote’s intent is less to shame the reader than to unsettle complacency: if thought can impersonate its own controller, then “being rational” isn’t enough. The real challenge is noticing the impersonation in real time.