Mario Bunge Quotes - Page 2

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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 one ceases to be after death was too painful to him.

  Mario Bunge

  Religious, Ideas, Painful

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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• In any event, I don't believe in instant philosophy, because interesting problems take a long time to understand and work out. Just think of the problems of truth and justice.

  Mario Bunge

  Philosophy, Believe, Thinking

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• I have nothing to fear from serious social studies of science, and I hope that my philosophy will help progressive science policies while showing that the most modern views of science are ignorant and regressive, even if they are accompanied by a leftist-sounding rhetoric.

  Mario Bunge

  Philosophy, Views, Ignorant

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• Some of the big philosophical problems have been solved by science, at least to a 1st approximation. Examples: the problems of matter, and mind. Only philosophical reactionaries, like Noam Chomsky, claim that they are and will remain mysteries.

  Mario Bunge

  Philosophical, Mind, Example

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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 spacetime has more than 4 dimensions, that particles can move faster than light, or that human life can be prolonged indefinitely.

  Mario Bunge

  Moving, Light, World

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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 see to it that no one is harmed just because of her beliefs.

  Mario Bunge

  Racism, Belief, States

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• Communication accompanies social transactions and can instruct or stultify, mobilize or intimidate, but it is no substitute for production, collaboration and fight.

  Mario Bunge

  Communication, Fighting, Collaboration

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• There is a continuum between science and philosophy. As Fichte said (but did not practice), philosophy should be the science of sciences.

  Mario Bunge

  Philosophy, Practice, Should

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• It occurred to me that I had the duty to give society something in exchange for the free education I was getting.

  Mario Bunge

  Free Education, Giving, Duty

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• Few if any political philosophers have had the courage of tackling the Cold War. Even the best of them have kept silent or have stated some bromides glossing over the serious shortcomings of "our" side, such as racism, social injustice, extreme income disparities, the exploitation of the Third World, and environmental degradation.

  Mario Bunge

  War, Racism, Political

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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