Ends Quote by David Berlinski Download Open image “In the end, every scheme and every science is justified by itself or it is not justified at all.” — David Berlinski ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ends Justified Schemes Science
If you take Darwin's theory and extend it to its logical end, it can be used to justify a number of very horrendous things. — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
“It is wrong to equate scientific laws, as a human construct, with the absolute truth.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“Science is a human construct. Scientific laws are as valid as our understanding at any particular moment. Scientific laws are not absolute. Scientific laws… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified. Today the greatest divide within humanity is not… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Given any rule, however �fundamental� or �necessary� for science, there are always circumstances when it is advisable not only to ignore the rule, but… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
You are right in speaking of the moral foundations of science, but you cannot turn around and speak of the scientific foundations of morality. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to believe that science consists in nothing but conclusively proved propositions, and it is unjust to demand that it should.… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
It is unreasonable to expect science to produce a system of ethics-ethics are a kind of highway code for traffic among mankind-and the fact… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
For all the great dreams profitlessly invested in the digital computer, it is nonetheless true that not since the framers of the American Constitution… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
The motion of the mind is conveyed along a cloud of meaning.~ There is this paradox that we get to meaning only when we… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
“The argument that Hawking has offered may be conveyed by question-and-answer, as in the Catholic catechism. A Catechism of Quantum Cosmology Q: From… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
If moral statements are about something, then the universe is not quite as science suggests it is, since physical theories, having said nothing about… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
“Before you can ask 'Is Darwinian theory correct or not?', You have to ask the preliminary question 'Is it clear enough so that it… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
“What Hitler did not believe and what Stalin did not believe and what Mao did not believe and what the SS did not believe… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
Bystanders wandered in and out of the merchant's stall, passing the time, talking of dreams they might purchase. Workers and slaves stooped from labor… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
“Whatever the degree to which Darwin may have “misled science into a dead end,” the biologist Shi V. Liu observed in commenting on Koonin’s… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
No distinction in kind rather than degree between ourselves and the chimps? No distinction? Seriously, folks? Here is a simple operational test: the chimpanzees… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
The desire to see and the desire to ratify what one has seen are desires at odds with one another, if only because they… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
Every computer divides itself into its hardware and its software, the machine host to its algorithm, the human being to his mind. It is… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
I do not know whether any of this is true. I am certain that the scientific community does not know that it is false. — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the… — Val Guest Copy Share Image
Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Dating someone on the opposite end of the happy spectrum teaches you an incredible amount of patience. — Chris Pine Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's just enough for me to have the idea. I don't need to see it through to the end. When it actually happens,… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
At the end of night, before you close your eyes, be content with what you've done and be proud of who you are. — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
it is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end. — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
I hope that the Palestinians don't make the mistake of unleashing a new intifada. They've tried it twice before, and the consequences were bad… — Tom Segev Copy Share Image
Believe to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one faithful; bring your offering even then and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image