Absence Quote by Patricia Churchland

“Theorizing is of course essential to make progress in understanding, but theorizing in the absence of knowing available relevant facts is not very productive.” quote by Patricia Churchland — Download Open image

“Theorizing is of course essential to make progress in understanding, but theorizing in the absence of knowing available relevant facts is not very productive.”

Patricia Churchland

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When that theory is isolated from known facts, it is likely not to be productive.

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I am less attracted to guesses about what cannot be done, than about making progress on a problem.

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Humility bids us to take ourselves as we are; we do not have to be cosmically significant to be genuinely significant.

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