“I know there is no danger that I will ever forget that people construct their own reality, that human beings are not led to the same version of events and of the world by the same physical evidence.” PeopleKnowsWorldHumansRealityHuman BeingsForgetEventsDangerEvidenceVersionsConstructs Author:Dale Spender
“Knowledge signifies things known. Where there are no things known, there is no knowledge. Where there are no things to be known, there can be no knowledge. We have observed that every science, that is, every branch of knowledge, is compounded of certain facts, of which our sensations furnish the evidence. Where no such evidence is supplied, we are without data; we are without first premises; and when, without these, we attempt to build up a science, we do as those who raise edifices without foundations. And what do such builders construct? Castles in the air.” FirstsFactsScienceCertainReligionKnownKnowledgeAirEvidenceRaisesFoundationDataBranchesSensationsConstructsCastlesPremisesBuilderEdificeCastles In The Air Author:Frances Wright
“Nostalgia for people, cultures, everything. There's an ability to use these marks to note things that are erased, deleted. Traces are a species of history, of evidence. It's a way for the way the narrator to construct a semblance of self, even though all of this creates a deception, a way to think of one's traces as a real way to define oneself. The trace is fallible, impermanent. It's one of the motives I had in mind throughout the text.” PeopleThinkingWayMindRealSelfUseCultureAbilityEvidenceMarkNotesSpeciesOneselfNostalgiaDeceptionMotiveConstructsNarratorsSemblance Author:Sergio Chejfec
“The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work-that is, correctly to describe phenomena from a reasonably wide area.” TryingScienceCertainModelsEvidenceAreasAccountsMathematicsWideExpectedObservationMathematicalInterpretationJustificationConstructsMathematical Models Book:The Neumann Compendium Source: The Neumann Compendium
“The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, even in our imagination, to construct functional intermediates in many cases, has been a persistent and nagging problem for gradualist accounts of evolution.” Has BeensProblemImaginationCasesStageDesignEvolutionMajorsEvidenceAccountsAbsenceTransitionConstructsInabilityFossilsPersistentCreationismNaggingPaleontology Author:Stephen Jay Gould