science

"It bears repetition that an argument against representation is not anti-scientific at all. It is merely an argument against a particular scientific strategy that assumes complexity can be reduced to s…"

"Science can explain why we value things, but the same goes for values we reject as wrong. That's why scientific explanations of what we value cannot justify those values or serve as a basis to enforce…"

"They had done him the honor to take him for a madman, but had set him free on discovering that he was only a poet."

"The Judy Garland Database"

"Capitalism is a great idea in theory, but in practice it just doesn't work."

"If I discover a manure which will enable me to make a piece of land produce 20 per cent more corn, I may withdraw at least a portion of my capital from the most unproductive part of my farm."

"Our investigative research into the origin and first major use of solid state diode detector devices led to the discovery that the first transatlantic wireless signal in Marconi’s world-famous experim…"

"It is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science."

"There surely is something to these terms, but too often they’re the result of minds intent on discovering meaning where there is only probability."

"Philosophy has come to include, for us, a wide range of theoretical questions that typically look beyond what we can answer by experimental enquiries. While science asks how matter behaves, and tests …"

"You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion."

"Observation is the generative act in scientific discovery. For all its aberrations, the evidence of the senses is essentially to be relied upon—provided we observe nature as a child does, without prej…"

"What is Gestalt theory and what does it intend? Gestalt theory was the outcome of concrete investigations in psychology, logic, and epistemology. The prevailing situation at the time of its origin may…"

"Our minds are all different and I believe cultivating a keen introspective sensitivity is absolutely essential in discovering our potential."

"So long as it doesn't get to the point where you don't remember whose opera you're listening to, I'm willing to experiment."

"Science fiction is, after all, the art of extrapolation."

"Derren Brown at Science of Attraction"

"I have always thought that clarity is a form of courtesy that the philosopher owes; moreover, this discipline of ours considers it more truly a matter of honor today than ever before to be open to all…"

"Some years ago, as Your Serene Highness well knows, I discovered in the heavens many things that had not been seen before our own age. The novelty of these things, as well as some consequences which f…"

"Thematic analysis is a process for encoding quantitative information. The encoding requires an explicit "code". This may be a list of themes; a complex model with themes, indicators, and qualification…"