Boundaries Quote by Mario Bunge

“All genuine philosophy transcends national boundaries. Patriotic philosophies are just nationalist ideologies.”

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Science is morally neutral, but social science shows us that some moral codes are better than others.

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Whereas science elicits changes in order to know, technology knows in order to elicit changes.

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We deem valuable whatever is likely to meet our needs or wishes (individual values) and whatever is likely to help protect or attain social goals (social values). However, this is not a dichotomy, for some individual values, such as truth, are needed to secure some social values, such as mutual trust, and some social values, such as peace, are required…

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A distinguished cognitive neuroscientist confessed to me that, because of his religious upbringing, he could not get rid of psychoneural dualism. The idea that…

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In the scientific community you find competent teachers and original researchers, just as in the musical community you find many good performers but very…

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Of course much remains to know, but we know how to learn: through scientific research.

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Most contemporary philosophers are conservative and eager to keep their jobs.

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To me, work is not a burden but my main hobby. This is why I always take work with me when I go on…

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A democratic state will protect the freedom to hold any beliefs other than those that harm others, such as racism. In particular, it will…

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The motto of science is not just Pauca but rather Plurima ex paucissimis - the most out of the least.

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It is scandalous the way some scientists accept uncritically some of the most ridiculous speculations, such as the plurality of worlds, the opinion that…

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All philosophers can do is to abstain from helping the aggressors and to enjoin social scientists to tell the truth instead of joining the…

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I think the next 50 years are going to present the human race with challenges that so far exceed the limitations of geopolitical boundaries or nationalist identity. We're going to be up against challenges that we can barely fathom at this point. So how we embrace them and deal with them will define a great many things about where we…

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A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled surfaces. We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to set foot in it. We need the possibility of escape as surely…

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God's Word does provide life lessons to teach us how to live. And it gives us beautiful poetry that gives voice to our human…

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While the world of reality has its limits, the world of your imagination is without boundaries

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There's always that discussion about fiction about how do you market it - these are books for boys, these are books for girls, these…

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... informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of…

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I never go anywhere or do anything that transports me outside the boundaries of my mind.

George Carlin

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As a kid, in the Runaways, I would see the interviewers start to ask about our personal lives and what we did — and I could see the look in their eyes. They were practically frothing at the mouth. So if I answered these questions, I knew they were never gonna talk about the music. It was like that instinct…

Joan Jett

Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.

Bill Gates

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A language possesses utility only insofar as it can construct conventional boundaries. A language of no boundaries is no language at all, and thus the mystic who tries to speak logically and formally of unity consciousness is doomed to sound very paradoxical or contradictory. The problem is that the structure of any language cannot grasp the nature of unity consciousness,…

Ken Wilber