Whether or not science can be applied to that mental construct [i.e. the designed entity] is a matter of availability. If there… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love. While I was conducting experiments to make spineless cacti, I… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
“A belief that the ancients held unusual scientific knowledge, of which only fragments remain today, was held by many great philosophers and… — David Flynn Copy Share Image
“If my duty to my parents is a superstition, then so is my duty to posterity. If justice is a superstition, then… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In one of the most brilliant papers in the English language Hume made it clear that what we speak of as 'causality'… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“It is necessary to choose: if you wish to be an empiricist, you must abandon the hope of founding scientific knowledge on… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
No society has ever yet been able to handle the temptations of technology to mastery, to waste, to exuberance, to exploration and… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
“In religion and politics, on the contrary, though there is as yet nothing approaching scientific knowledge, everybody considers it de rigueur to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“When asked whether or not we are Marxists, our position is the same as that of a physicist, when asked if he… — Ernesto "Che" Guevara Copy Share Image
“Now the End of the World is an abstraction because it has never happened. It has no existence in the real world.… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
“The physicist's relativity, which in recent years has changed our whole approach to scientific knowledge, is harder, and therefore easier to understand,… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
“In provisionally characterizing the object which serves as the theme of our investigation (the Being of entities, or the meaning of Being… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“It was passages like these, where there is a clear mocking of literalist readings of Scripture, that had brought me back around… — Kalanithi Copy Share Image
“Science can now help us to understand ourselves in this way by giving factual information about brain structure and function, and how… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
Scientific research involves going beyond the well-trodden and well-tested ideas and theories that form the core of scientific knowledge. During the time… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
In the case of some people, not even if we had the most accurate scientific knowledge, would it be easy to persuade… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“What is it worth to see two former bitter enemies transform weapons into transport for exploration and the pursuit of scientific knowledge?… — Scott Kelly Copy Share Image
“In the preface of his Critique of Pure Reason, Kant (1787/1933, B XVI) refers in the same way to the Copernican Revolution.… — Ulrich Müller Copy Share Image
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand in… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
“if you believe that science provides no basis for God, then you are almost obligated to conclude that science provides no basis… — Paul Kalanithi Copy Share Image
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