Quotessence
Home / Authors / Anthony Standen

Anthony Standen Quotes

Author

Filter quotes by topic

AllScienceScientistIfsHumansLongPsychologistThinkingConclusionDoeKnowsMenModernPhysicistPhysicsSocialTheoryWayWonderfulAbleAbsolutes

Famous Anthony Standen Quotes

“But although in theory physicists realize that their conclusions are ... not certainly true, this ... does not really sink into their consciousness. Nearly all the time ... they ... act as if Science were indisputably True, and what's more, as if only science were true.... Any information obtained otherwise than by the scientific method, although it may be true, the scientists will call "unscientific," using this word as a smear word, by bringing in the connotation from its original [Greek] meaning, to imply that the information is false, or at any rate slightly phony.”

IfsMayDoeScienceRealizingConsciousnessInformationTheoryScientistOriginalsMethodRateConclusionBeing TrueGreekPhysicistPhonyScientific MethodConnotation
Author:Anthony Standen
Create image

“The theory that gravitational attraction is inversely proportional to the square of the distance leads by remorseless logic to the conclusion that the path of a planet should be an ellipse .... It is this logical thinking that is the real meat of the physical sciences. The social scientist keeps the skin and throws away the meat.... His theorems no more follow from his postulates than the hunches of a horse player follow logically from the latest racing news. The result is guesswork clad in long flowing robes of gobbledygook.”

ThinkingShouldLongRealScienceSocialResultsPathPlayerPlanetsTheoryNewsLogicSkinsScientistHorseDistanceAttractionConclusionMeatLogicalRacingSquaresRobesTheoremsLogical ThinkingHunchesPhysical ScienceRemorselessGuesswork
Author:Anthony Standen
Create image