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What our species needs, above all else, is a generally accepted ethical system that is compatible with the scientific knowledge we now possess.

— Anonymous

I am mainly concerned with unqualified knowledge, by contrast with the varieties of expert knowledge: scientific knowledge of various sorts, legal knowledge, medically expert…

— Ernest Sosa

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.

— Vincent Van Gogh

During the first half of the present century we had an Alexander von Humboldt, who was able to scan the scientific knowledge of his…

— Hermann von Helmholtz

“Human society should very seriously understand that the body itself is the source of all miserable life. Modern civilization is supposed to be making…

— Anonymous

To be sure, the doctrine of a personal God interfering with natural events could never be refuted, in the real sense, by science, for…

— Albert Einstein

“The truly apocalyptic view of the world is that things do not repeat themselves. It isn’t absurd, e.g., to believe that the age of…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“As I see it the world is undoubtedly in need of a new religion, and that religion must be founded on humanist principles. When…

— Julian Huxley

The fact that these scientific theories have a fine track record of successful prediction and explanation speaks for itself. (Which is not to say…

— Hilary Kornblith

“Science can now help us to understand ourselves in this way by giving factual information about brain structure and function, and how the mind…

— David Bohm

“To the point: A woman who wants to terminate her pregnancy has to make her decision in the context of a culture that shames…

— Willie Parker

“Yet the paradox is that scientific methodology is the product of human hands and thus cannot reach some permanent truth. We build scientific theories…

— Paul Kalanithi