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
“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
Zero is powerful because it is infinity’s twin. They are equal and opposite, yin and yang. They are equally paradoxical and troubling.… — Charles Seife Copy Share Image
“the problem with philosphy problems is that they don't have proper solutions” — Martin Cohen 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
In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken..." — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“We all live our lives blindly believing in the people who make the decisions. Believing in science. Because the world is inscrutable… — Peter Hoeg Copy Share Image
“Science does not stand as a moral guardian of humanity, rather it attempts to stand as the least subjective, least biased and… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“I fully agree with you about the significance and educational value of methodology as well as history and philosophy of science. So… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“We need a dream-world in order to discover the features of the real world we think we inhabit.” — Paul Karl Feyerabend Copy Share Image
physics explains everything, which we know because anything physics cannot explain does not exist, which we know because whatever exists must be… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
In the history and literature courses I took, epistemological questions came to interest me most. What makes one explanation of the French… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
“The inability of Darwinian psychology to account for human reasoning is devastating to its pretensions to be a science. The prestige of… — 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
“True genius is the one of the heart, not of intellect. Because intellect-less heart, though exploited a lot, still does good, whereas… — Abhijit Naskar 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
“Distortion and suppression of the truth is encouraged by a prevailing attitude of scientism, not science itself but rather a certain attitude… — Angus Menuge Copy Share Image
Science was born as a result and consequence of philosophy; it cannot survive without a philosophical base. If philosophy perishes, science will… — Ayn Rand 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
“The focus of history and philosophy of science scholar Arthur Miller’s (2010) "137: Jung and Pauli and the Pursuit of Scientific Obsession"… — Todd Hayen Copy Share Image
“Thomas Kuhn’s book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions has probably been more widely read—and more widely misinterpreted—than any other book in the… — Philip Kitcher 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
“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
