“Experimental work provides the strongest evidence for scientific realism. This is not because we test hypotheses about entities. It is because entities that in principle cannot be 'observed' are manipulated to produce a new phenomena [sic] and to investigate other aspects of nature.” RealitySciencePrinciplesProduceEvidenceAspectTestsStrongestRealismEntityHypothesisOntology Author:Ian Hacking
“Even the clearest and most perfect circumstantial evidence is likely to be at fault, after all, and therefore ought to be received with great caution. Take the case of any pencil, sharpened by any woman; if you have witnesses, you will find she did it with a knife; but if you take simply the aspect of the pencil, you will say that she did it with her teeth.” IfsPerfectCasesOughtEvidenceAspectFaultsTeethWitnessKnivesPencilsCautionCircumstantial Evidence Author:Mark Twain
“The suburban West is, from a moral perspective, depressing evidence that we have misused our freedom. There is, however, another aspect to the landscape, an unexpected glory. Over the cheap tracts and littered arroyos one sometimes see a light as clean as that recorded by O'Sullivan. Since it owes nothing to our care, it is an assurance; beauty is final.” SometimesLightCareMoralPerspectiveGloryEvidenceAspectCleanWestFinalsLandscapeUnexpectedDepressingAssuranceMisused Author:Robert Adams
“There is no evidence that we've been placed on this planet to be especially happy or especially normal. And in fact our unhappiness and our strangeness, our anxieties and compulsions, those least fashionable aspects of our personalities, are quite often what lead us to do rather interesting things.” FactsInterestingPlanetsPersonalityNormalAnxietyEvidenceAspectUnhappinessCompulsionInteresting ThingsFashionableStrangeness Book:The Psychopath Test Source: The Psychopath Test
“Science is best defined as a careful, disciplined, logical search for knowledge about any and all aspects of the universe, obtained by examination of the best available evidence and always subject to correction and improvement upon discovery of better evidence. What's left is magic. And it doesn't work.” ScienceReligionUniverseLeftKnowledgeMagicSubjectsEvidenceDiscoveryAspectCarefulAvailableImprovementDefinedLogicalExaminationCorrectionsSearch For Knowledge Book:The Mask of Nostradamus: The Prophecies of the World's Most Famous Seer Source: The Mask of Nostradamus: The Prophecies of the World's Most Famous Seer
“It is certainly true in the United States that there is an uneasiness about certain aspects of science, particularly evolution, because it conflicts, in some people's minds, with their sense of how we all came to be. But you know, if you are a believer in God, it's hard to imagine that God would somehow put this incontrovertible evidence in front of us about our relationship to other living organisms and expect us to disbelieve it. I mean, that doesn't make sense at all.” PeopleIfsKnowsMindMeanHardStatesScienceCertainImaginationUnitedUnited StatesImagineFrontsEvolutionConflictEvidenceAspectBelieverMake SenseImagine ThatOur RelationshipOrganismsLiving OrganismsUneasiness Author:Francis Collins
“Science and religion are very much alike. Both are imaginative and creative aspects of the human mind. The appearance of a conflict is a result of ignorance. We come to exist through a divine act. That divine guidance is a theme throughout our life; at our death the brain goes, but that divine guidance and love continues. Each of us is a unique, conscious being, a divine creation. It is the religious view. It is the only view consistent with all the evidence.” MindHumansReligiousResultsViewsBrainCreativeOur LivesAtheismCreationIgnoranceDivineConflictUniqueConsciousEvidenceAspectAnd LoveAppearanceGuidanceThemeConsistentHuman MindScience And ReligionImaginativeDivine GuidanceReligious Views Author:John Eccles