“I intend to discuss some perplexing issues which are raised once we embrace the hypothesis that society can be deschooled; to search for criteria which may help us distinguish institutions which merit development because they support learning in a deschooled milieu; and to clarify those personal goals which would foster the advent of an Age of Leisure (schole) as opposed to an economy dominated by service industries.” MayHelpingAgeGoalSupportEconomyIssuesDevelopmentIndustryInstitutionsEmbraceRaisedMeritLeisureHypothesisCriteriaAdventScholesMilieuPersonal GoalService Industry Author:Ivan Illich
“Our conceptions of morality, as all our other ideas, pass through a course of development; the difficulty comes in adjusting our conduct, which has become hardened into customs and habits, to these changing moral conceptions. When this adjustment is not made, we suffer from the strain and indecision of believing one hypothesis and acting upon another.” BelieveMadeIdeasSufferingCoursesActingMoralDevelopmentHabitMoralityDifficultyCustomsConceptionStrainHypothesisAdjustmentIndecisionHardenedAdjusting Book:Democracy and Social Ethics Source: Democracy and Social Ethics
“Mr. Darwin's hypothesis is not, so far as I am aware, inconsistent with any known biological fact; on the contrary, if admitted, the facts of Development, of Comparative Anatomy, of Geographical Distribution, and of Palaeontology, become connected together, and exhibit a meaning such as they never possessed before; and I, for one, am fully convinced that if not precisely true, that hypothesis is as near an approximation to the truth as, for example, the Copernican hypothesis was to the true theory of the planetary motions.” IfsFactsTogetherKnownExampleTheoryDevelopmentConnectedConvincedContraryPossessedHypothesisDistributionExhibitsAnatomyInconsistentApproximation Author:Thomas Huxley
“While the scientist, on the one hand, is concerned with giving a faithful description of facts, on the other, he has the equally important task of construing them in relation to some explanatory conjecture. Similarly the historian has a double duty: both of reporting the past as nearly as possible as it passed or was lived through by men at the time (without doctoring up events to fit later developments or some more "enlightened reading" of them); and second, of interpreting their import in the light of a present hypothesis.” MenGivingImportantFactsHandsLightPastScienceReadingHistoryEventsDutyDevelopmentFitConcernedTasksScientistRelationFaithfulDescriptionEnlightenedHistorianHypothesisImportsInterpretingConjectureDoctoring Book:The judgment of history Source: The judgment of history
“Toby Tyrrell unravels the various formulations of Gaia and explains how recent scientific developments bring the hypothesis into question. His criticisms are insightful, profound, and convincing, but fair. On Gaia is wonderfully informative and a pleasure to read.” PleasureDevelopmentFairsCriticismProfoundVariousInsightfulHypothesisConvincingInformativeGaiaToby Author:Francisco J. Ayala
“Cities never flourish alone. They have to be trading with other cities. My new hypothesis shows why. But also in trading with each other they can't be in too different stages of development, and they can't copy one another.” DifferentShowsCitiesStageDevelopmentCopiesHypothesisTradingStages Of Development Author:Jane Jacobs
“The hypothesis may be put forward, to be tested by the s subsequent investigation, that this development has been in large part a matter of the reciprocal interaction of new factual insights and knowledge on the one hand with changes in the theoretical system on the other.” MayHas BeensMatterHandsDevelopmentInsightInteractionInvestigationTestedHypothesisTheoreticalFactualReciprocal Book:Readings from Talcott Parsons Source: Readings from Talcott Parsons