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My point of view is that science is essentially private, whereas the almost universal counter point of view, explicitly stated in many of the articles…
— Percy Williams Bridgman
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Philosophers, if they have much imagination, are apt to let it loose as well as other people, and in such cases are sometimes led to…
— Granville Penn
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We regard as 'scientific' a method based on deep analysis of facts, theories, and views, presupposing unprejudiced, unfearing open discussion and conclusions. The complexity and…
— Andrei Sakharov
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The alchemists of past centuries tried hard to make the elixir of life: ... Those efforts were in vain; it is not in our power…
— Hermann Franz Moritz Kopp
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To the mind which looks not to general results in the economy of Nature, the earth may seem to present a scene of perpetual warfare,…
— William Buckland
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For strictly scientific or technological purposes all this is irrelevant. On a pragmatic view, as on a religious view, theory and concepts are held in…
— Bertram Brockhouse
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From the point of view of the pure morphologist the recapitulation theory is an instrument of research enabling him to reconstruct probable lines of descent;…
— E.S. Russell
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It surely can be no offence to state, that the progress of science has led to new views, and that the consequences that can be…
— Henry De la Beche
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[Theory is] an explanation that has been confirmed to such a degree, by observation and experiment, that knowledgeable experts accept it as fact. That's what…
— David Quammen
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It is clear, then, that the idea of a fixed method, or of a fixed theory of rationality, rests on too naive a view of…
— Paul Feyerabend
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The burgeoning field of computer science has shifted our view of the physical world from that of a collection of interacting material particles to one…
— Paul Davies
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No problem is more crucial for a naturalistic view of the world than the mind-body problem.
— Roy Wood Sellars
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Here is the cosmological proof of the existence of God - the design argument of Paley - updated and refurbished. The fine tuning of the…
— Edward Robert Harrison
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Science and religion are very much alike. Both are imaginative and creative aspects of the human mind. The appearance of a conflict is a result…
— John Eccles
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God created the universe out of nothing in an act which also brought time into existence. Recent discoveries, such as observations supporting the Big Bang…
— Henry Margenau
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Students may feel the criticism is harsh, but I think it's possible they haven't had criticism before. It's my job to point out when something…
— Louise Wilson
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The most constructive solutions are those which take into consideration the views of all persons involved and are acceptable to all. Such outcomes are the…
— Gabor Peter
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May I see my own limits with compassion, just as I view the limits of others.
— Joan Halifax
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Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or…
— John Amos Comenius
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...it was always our view that in order to attain this [proletarian revolution] and the other far more important aims of the future social revolution,…
— Friedrich Engels
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