Conflict has come from our thought, and it has evolved over the whole period of civilization. Thought has developed in such a way that it has an intrinsic disposition to divide things up…We could sum up by saying that we’ve got to look at thought.

In this process, we will come upon some more subtle quality of the mind that will begin to awaken and that can spread. This subtle quality will show up collectively in a sense of impersonal fellowship that generates trust, and in the intellect as a thinking together that is free of the general pressure toward self-deception that we now feel. This can be the germ of a radically new kind of culture.

— David Bohm.

David Bohm (d. 1992) has been described as one of the most significant theoretical physicists of the 20th century.