"It is the desire for explanations that are……" — Ernest Nagel

"It is the desire for explanations that are at once systematic and controllable by factual evidence that generates science; and it is the organization and classification of knowledge on the basis of explanatory principles that is the distinctive goal of the sciences."

— Ernest Nagel

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2 Quotes by Ernest Nagel

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Like Molière's M. Jourdain, who spoke prose all his life without knowing it, mathematicians have been reasoning for at least…

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