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“Creatures inveterately wrong in their inductions have a pathetic but praise-worthy tendency to die before reproducing their kind.”

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Willard Van Orman Quine

Willard Van Orman Quine was an American philosopher known for his work in logic, philosophy of science, and philosophy of language. He is considered one of the leading analytic philosophers of the 20th century. more

“We cannot ultimately specify the grounds (either metaphysical or logical or empirical) upon which we hold that our knowledge is true. Being committed to such grounds, dwelling in them, we are projecting ourselves to what we believe to be true from or through these grounds. We cannot therefore see what they are. We cannot look at them because we are looking with them.”

Believe Looks Committed Being True Logical Metaphysical Dwelling

Book:Meaning

Source: Meaning

“I shall reconsider human knowledge by starting from the fact that we can know more than we can tell.”

Knows Humans Facts Starting Human Knowledge

Book:The Tacit Dimension

Source: The Tacit Dimension

“A man demonstrates his rationality, not by a commitment to fixed ideas, stereotyped procedures, or immutable concepts, but by the manner in which, and the occasions on which, he changes those ideas, procedures, and concepts.”

Men Ideas Change He Man Concepts Commitment Transformation Occasions Fixed Stereotype Rationality Procedures Demonstrating

Author:Stephen Toulmin

“I can accept the theory of relativity as little as I can accept the existence of atoms and other such dogmas.”

Littles I Can Existence Accepting Theory Atoms Dogma Follow Your Dreams Relativity Theories Of Relativity

Author:Ernst Mach

“A colour is a physical object as soon as we consider its dependence, for instance, upon its luminous source, upon other colours, upon temperatures, upon spaces, and so forth.”

Space Objects Source Instance Colour Dependence Temperature Luminous

Book:The Analysis of Sensations: And the Relation of the Physical to the Psychical

Source: The Analysis of Sensations: And the Relation of the Physical to the Psychical

“In reality, the law always contains less than the fact itself, because it does not reproduce the fact as a whole but only in that aspect of it which is important for us, the rest being intentionally or from necessity omitted.”

Doe Important Whole Facts Reality Law Aspect

Book:Popular Scientific Lectures

Source: Popular Scientific Lectures

“People are deeply nourished by the process of creating wholeness.”

People Process Creating Wholeness

Book:The luminous ground: an essay on the art of building and the nature of the universe

Source: The luminous ground: an essay on the art of building and the nature of the universe

“The specific patterns, out of which a building or a town is made may be alive or dead. To the extent they are alive, they let our inner forces loose, and, set us free; but when they are dead they keep us locked in inner conflict.”

May Made Force Alive Building Conflict Towns Patterns Locked Inner Conflict

Book:The Timeless Way of Building

Source: The Timeless Way of Building

“We start off confused and end up confused on a higher level.”

Ends Levels Higher Confused Higher Level

Author:Alan Chalmers

“The glory of science is to imagine more than we can prove.”

Imagine Prove Glory

Author:Freeman Dyson

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