If a theory purports to explain everything, then it is likely not explaining much at all. — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
“Science progresses. Ideology tends to linger unchanged, and often unquestioned.” — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
“[T]he nature of science is not that of a steady, linear progression toward the Truth, but rather a tortuous road, often characterized… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
“Popper rightly believed that the public-not just scientists or philosophers-needs to understand and appreciate that distinction, because science is too powerful and… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
... it is because one can build a compelling set of arguments - informed by science and thoroughly compatible with it -… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
“one does not need experiments to do science. While this claim may sound strange and counterintuitive at first, a moment's reflection will… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
“Scientific theories are tested every time someone makes an observation or conducts an experiment, so it is misleading to think of science… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
“These and similar examples are easy enough to uncover, and they make two crucial points: first, good science does not require experiments,… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
“science makes progress not by proving its theories right-because that's impossible-but by eliminating an increasing number of wrong theories. Pseudoscience, however, does… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
Given the power and influence that science increasingly has in our daily lives, it is important that we as citizens of an… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
Death itself is a natural occurrence, it is unavoidable, and the Stoics thought that part of philosophical practice is to get comfortable with the… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share
If a theory purports to explain everything, then it is likely not explaining much at all. — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share
“The many-worlds theory basically maintains that the reason quantum mechanics seems so strange is because we have access to only one of an infinite… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share
“as astronomer Carl Sagan once aptly put it, you do not want to keep your mind so open that your brain is likely to… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share
Given the power and influence that science increasingly has in our daily lives, it is important that we as citizens of an open and… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share
I believe Stoicism can help anyone who takes it seriously and begins to practice it. It will help them flourish because it will provide… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share
“Following the Post Modernist route, we may indeed never arrive at meaning, but not because meaning is not there... only because we are lost… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share
I can't speak for others, but I find the fundamental idea that a life worth living is one during which one strives every day… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share
The Stoic discipline of action, which is connected to the virtue of justice, says that we ought to treat others fairly and we should… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share
“Or maybe, another explanation goes, we are in fact surrounded by ETs and simply don't know it, perhaps because they decided to make the… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share
“Science progresses. Ideology tends to linger unchanged, and often unquestioned.” — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share
I don't see any Stoic practice as problematic or risky, but I would advise to engage in extreme versions of the negative visualization exercise… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share
The Stoics thought that a fundamental insight into human life is that some things are up to us and others are not, the famous… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share
... it is because one can build a compelling set of arguments - informed by science and thoroughly compatible with it - that to… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share
“It is instructive to note that different cultures "discovered" completely different constellations in the sky, a fact that is more consistent with the idea… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share
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