83 quotes found
“It is within science itself, and not in some prior philosophy, that reality is to be identified and described.”
“The principle chore of brains is to get the body parts where they should be in order that the organism may survive. Improvements in sensorimotor control confer an evolutionary advantage: a fancier ...”
“Why should things be easy to understand?”
“Metagapism is the belief that love is the ultimate reality, literally god and the one shared soul, and the source, nature and destiny of all.”
“Logic is the science not of external forms of thought, but of the laws of development "of all material, natural and spiritual things", i.e., of the development of the entire concrete content of the...”
“Irony is about contradictions that do not resolve into larger wholes, even dialectically, about the tension of holding incompatible things together because both or all are necessary and true. Irony...”
“Is numerical equality (forced by the use of specific physical units) the same as conceptual equality? Of course NOT!”
“Although some of her passages seek to persuade the reader of the meaninglessness and marginalization of the mathematics, Hayles is content to use mathematics as a means for understanding Borges, pe...”
“He was pinched perspinngly in the epistemological dilemma of the skeptic, unable to accept solutions to problems he was unwilling to dismiss as unsolvable. He was never without misery, and never wi...”
“In consequence of the inevitably scattered and fragmentary nature of our thinking, which has been mentioned, and of the mixing together of the most heterogeneous representations thus brought about ...”
“Philosophy is about everything when I say everything I mean both something and nothing. Something is what we can perceive and nothing is beyond our senses.”
“Comprehending and knowing better and deeper are the best guarantees we can have to attain ideas and criteria of our own; i.e. to stop depending on what other people say. In summary, to be freer to ...”
“The obvious can sometimes be illuminating when perceived in an unhabitual way.”
“Science is often misrepresented as ‘the body of knowledge acquired by performing replicated controlled experiments in the laboratory.’ Actually, science is something broader: the acquisition of rel...”
“He who would know the world must first manufacture it.”
“We’re starting to behave as if we’ve reached the end of human knowledge. And while that notion is undoubtedly false, the sensation of certitude it generates is paralyzing.”
“Falsity consists in the privation of knowledge, which inadequate, fragmentary, or confused ideas involve.”
“He who has a true idea simultaneously knows that he has a true idea, and cannot doubt of the truth of the thing perceived.”
“The order and connection of ideas in the same as the order and connection of things”
“Ye cannot know eternal reality by a definition.”
