Science Quote by David Bohm

Bohm’s line lands like a quiet provocation in a culture trained to treat “the universe” as something out there: distant galaxies, abstract equations, cold scale. He flips the telescope around. If a human being is a microcosm, then selfhood isn’t a private anecdote inside a skull; it’s a local expression of the same order that builds stars and storms. The intent isn’t feel-good mysticism so much as an argument about method: to study mind, perception, and meaning isn’t a detour from physics but a route back into it.

The subtext is Bohm’s lifelong impatience with fragmentation. In both science and society, he thought we carve reality into neat boxes - subject versus object, observer versus observed, matter versus consciousness - then forget those boxes are inventions. “Clue” is the operative word: not identity (“man equals universe”) but correspondence, a hint that the patterns showing up in thought and relationship might mirror deeper patterns in nature. The phrase “enfolded in the universe” points directly to his signature idea of an implicate order, where what looks separate on the surface is intertwined at a deeper level.

Context matters: Bohm was a quantum physicist living after the shock of quantum theory made the observer hard to ignore, and after political persecution (McCarthy-era) made “separation” feel less like a neutral concept and more like a social pathology. The rhetorical power here is its pivot from cosmology to ethics without preaching: if we’re enfolded, then alienation is less a truth about reality than a habit of attention.