Quote from Alexander Pope
Quote from Alexander Pope Read More »
science,
Quote from Compton Gage
If one million of you give assent to the one thousand who participate in the murder of a child, then one million of you are a million times guilty.
Quote from Compton Gage Read More »
Quote from Isaac Newton, The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.
Quote from Isaac Newton, The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy Read More »
Quote from Max Horkheimer, Eclipse of Reason
Now that science has helped us to overcome the awe of the unknown in nature, we are the slaves of social pressures of our own making. When called upon to act independently, we cry for patterns, systems, and authorities. If by enlightenment and intellectual progress we mean the freeing of man from superstitious belief in evil forces, in demons and fairies, in blind fate–in short, the emancipation from fear–then denunciation of what is currently called reason is the greatest service reason can render.
Quote from Max Horkheimer, Eclipse of Reason Read More »
Quote from Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
A scientist can pretend that his work isn’t himself, it’s merely the impersonal truth. An artist can’t hide behind the truth. He can’t hide anywhere.
Quote from Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed Read More »
Quote from Harry M. Collins, The Golem at Large: What You Should Know about Technology
To say that the first casualty of war is truth is to miss the rather more important point that a principal weapon of war is lies.
Quote from Harry M. Collins, The Golem at Large: What You Should Know about Technology Read More »
Quote from Charles Sanders Peirce
It is the man of science, eager to have his every opinion regenerated, his every idea rationalized, by drinking at the fountain of fact, and devoting all the energies of his life to the cult of truth, not as he understands it, but as he does not yet understand it, that ought properly to be called a philosopher.
Quote from Charles Sanders Peirce Read More »
Quote from Tim Minchin
Science adjusts its views based on what’s observedFaith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
Quote from Tim Minchin Read More »
Quote from Robert A.F. Thurman, Why the Dalai Lama Matters: His Act of Truth as the Solution for China, Tibet, and the World
Buddhism is all about science. If science is the systematic pursuit of the accurate knowledge of reality, then science is Buddhism, Buddhism is science.
Quote from John Rogers Searle
It seemed to a number of philosophers of language, myself included, that we should attempt to achieve a unification of Chomsky’s syntax, with the results of the researches that were going on in semantics and pragmatics. I believe that this effort has proven to be a failure. Though Chomsky did indeed revolutionize the subject of linguistics, it is not at all clear, at the end the century, what the solid results of this revolution are. As far as I can tell there is not a single rule of syntax that all, or even most, competent linguists are prepared to agree is a rule.
Quote from John Rogers Searle Read More »