“It is a strange fancy to suppose that science can bring reason to an irrational world, when all it can ever do… — John Gray Copy Share Image
“The point is that if the knowledge that provides the categories we use to describe our observations is defective, the observation statements… — Alan F. Chalmers Copy Share Image
I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
The philosophy of science is inherent in the process. This is to say, you think critically, you draw a conclusion based on… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
My research career has been devoted to understanding human decision-making and problem-solving processes. The pursuit of this goal has led me into… — Herbert A. Simon Copy Share Image
“How can we assert and test hypotheses if there are no such things as assertions that can be evaluated as true or… — Angus Menuge Copy Share Image
But the need for conflict to expose prejudice and unclear reasoning, which is deeply embedded in my philosophy of science, has its… — Robert B. Laughlin Copy Share Image
“Scientific materialism is neither an implication nor a presupposition of doing science. Rather it is a metaphysical and sometimes religious stance that… — Angus Menuge Copy Share Image
“Love is a chemical reaction, But it cannot be fully understood or defined by science. And though a body cannot exist without… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
All those formal systems, in mathematics and physics and the philosophy of science, which claim to give foundations for certain truth are… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
“If the majority view, whether in government or in the scientific establishment, is wrong, toleration of dissent increases the odds that their… — Angus Menuge Copy Share Image
“In rational inquiry, we idealize to selected domains in such a way (we hope) as to permit us to discover crucial features… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
This is an extremely ambitious book. In addition to science and mathematics, Byers brings to bear insights from literature, philosophy, religion, history,… — Joseph Auslander Copy Share Image
“Humans think they are free, conscious beings, when in truth they are deluded animals. At the same time they never cease trying… — John Gray Copy Share Image
I would say to anybody who thinks that all the problems in philosophy can be translated into empirically verifiable answers - whether… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
The world of physics is essentially the real world construed by mathematical abstractions, and the world of sense is the real world… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I fully agree with you about the significance and educational value of as well as history and philosophy of science. So many… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“One may take the line that metaphorical devices are inevitable in the early stages of any science and that although we may… — B.F. Skinner Copy Share Image
“It isn't the sort of argument Pointsman relishes either. But he glances sharply at this young anarchist in his red scarf. "Pavlov… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“But we must not forget that all things in the world are connected with one another and depend on one another, and… — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
“[...] One chief difference between the medieval "scientist" and the scientist of to-day[1948] lies in the nature of the first principles accepted… — Leon Roth Copy Share Image
Paradox is thus a much deeper and universal concept than the ancients would have dreamed. Rather than an oddity, it is a… — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
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