Scientific materialism is neither an implication nor a…

It is worth remembering (though there is nothing that we can do about it) that the world as it really is may easily be…

— C. D. Broad

The seed of a metaphysical or religious defeat is in us all. For the honest questioner, however, who doesn't seek refuge in some faith…

— Peter Wessel Zapffe

“We tend to see two sides in modern research: cold, hard science on one side and metaphysical, mystical understandings on the other. Rarely do…

— Derek P Gilbert

“The upshot is a hermeneutics of suspicion; if someone tells you that he or she has converted to unbelief because of science, don’t believe…

— James K.A. Smith

We are in the grip of a scientific materialism, caught in a vicious cycle where our security today seems to depend on regimentation and…

— Charles Lindbergh

“If the majority view, whether in government or in the scientific establishment, is wrong, toleration of dissent increases the odds that their errors will…

— Angus Menuge

“How can we assert and test hypotheses if there are no such things as assertions that can be evaluated as true or false? How…

— Angus Menuge

“Distortion and suppression of the truth is encouraged by a prevailing attitude of scientism, not science itself but rather a certain attitude of veneration…

— Angus Menuge

“The inability of Darwinian psychology to account for human reasoning is devastating to its pretensions to be a science. The prestige of science depends…

— Angus Menuge

“When air becomes breath, and cells become sentient, Words become poetry, and facts become science.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but…

— Lord Kelvin

My research career has been devoted to understanding human decision-making and problem-solving processes. The pursuit of this goal has led me into the fields…

— Herbert A. Simon

“It isn't the sort of argument Pointsman relishes either. But he glances sharply at this young anarchist in his red scarf. "Pavlov believed that…

— Thomas Pynchon

I'm a geophysicist who has conducted and published climate studies in top-rank scientific journals. My perspective on Mr. Inhofe and the issue of global…

— David Deming

I don't join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn't have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying…

— Noam Chomsky