“The only thing that interests the physicist is finding out on what assumptions a framework of things can be constructed which will enable us to know how to use them mechanically. Physics, as I have said on another occasion, is the technique of techniques and the ars combinatoria for fabricating machines. It is a knowledge which has scarcely anything to do with comprehension.” PhilosophyScienceKnowledgeTechniquePhysicsComprehensionMechanics Author:José Ortega y Gasset
“So it happens that we must ask ourselves, with regard to truth, not for a new criterion for it, which will be better polished than earlier ones, but, peremptorily and seizing it by the lapels, "what is truth as such," and with regard to reality, not what things are or what and how is that which is, but for what reason that X which we call Being is in the Universe, and with regard to knowledge we must not ask for its bases and limits—as Plato, Aristotle Descartes, Kant did—but for something which comes before all this: for what reason we concern ourselves with trying to know.” ReasonPhilosophyRealityTruthUniverseKnowledgeBeing Book:La Idea De Principio En Leibniz Y La Evolución De La Teoría Deductiva Source: La Idea De Principio En Leibniz Y La Evolución De La Teoría Deductiva