Natural Science Quotes - Page 7

• An important tradition within westren philosophy believes in the primacy of natural science as a guide to truth. This is sometimes met with the charge that such an allegiance amounts to scientism - the view that the only things that really exist are those recognized by fundamental physical theory, and that the only forms of genuine knowledge are scientific ones.

  J. J. C. Smart

  Philosophy, Believe, Views

  J. J. C. Smart, J. J. Haldane (2008). “Atheism and Theism”, p.82, John Wiley & Sons

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• Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.

  Richard Powers

  Forever, Mastery, Faces

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• We ought not to believe those who today, adopting a philosophical air and with a tone of superiority, prophesy the decline of culter and are content with the unknowable in a self-satisfied way. For us there is no unknowable, and in my opinion there is also non whatsoever for the natural sciences. In place of this foolish unknowable, let our watchword on the contrary be: we must know - we shall know.

  David Hilbert

  Philosophical, Believe, Self

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• I assert that, in any particular natural science, one encounters genuine scientific substance only to the extent that mathematics is present.

  Immanuel Kant

  Encounters, Substance, Natural

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• In spite of all these disquieting triumphs in the field of natural science, it's astonishing how little man has learned about himself, and how much there is to learn. How little we know about this brain which made social evolution possible, and of the mind. How little we know of the nature and spirit of man and God. We stand now before this inner frontier of ignorance. If we could pass it, we might well discover the meaning of life and understand man's destiny.

  Wilder Penfield

  Ignorance, Destiny, Men

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• Investing is not a natural science but rather a social science. So, it's never purely empirical; what you are trying to do is everything you possibly can to enhance your probabilities of being right more often than being wrong.

  William Browne

  Trying, Investing, Natural

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• The book one must read to learn natural sciences is the book of nature. The book from which to learn religion is your own mind and heart.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Book, Heart, Mind

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.168, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• There is knowledge of God and the spiritual nature of man, as well as other types of reality..., that are not reducible to the world dealt with by the so-called "natural" sciences. The idea that knowledge - and, of course, reality - is limited to that world is the single most destructive idea on the stage of life today.

  Dallas Willard

  Spiritual, Reality, Men

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