“Interpretation is the evidence of growth and knowledge, the latter through sorrow ? that great teacher.” GrowthTeacherSorrowEvidenceLatterUnhappinessInterpretationGreat Teacher Author:Eleanora Duse
“Christian scholars often say that Sufi theories are close to those of Christianity. Many Moslems maintain that they are essentially derived from Islam. The resemblance of many Sufi ideas to those of several religious and esoteric systems are sometimes taken as evidence of derivation. The Islamic interpretation is that religion is of one origin, differences being due to local or historical causes.” IdeasSometimesChristianCausesDifferencesReligiousChristianityTakenTheoryEvidenceHistoricalIslamDuesLocalsIslamicInterpretationScholarSufiResemblanceEsoteric Book:The Elephant in the Dark Source: The Elephant in the Dark
“Postmodernism, the school of 'thought' that proclaimed 'There are no truths, only interpretations' has largely played itself out in absurdity, but it has left behind a generation of academics in the humanities disabled by their distrust of the very idea of truth and their disrespect for evidence, settling for 'conversations' in which nobody is wrong and nothing can be confirmed, only asserted with whatever style you can muster.” IdeasSchoolHumanityLeftBehindsGenerationsStyleConversationEvidenceSettlingInterpretationAbsurdityDistrustLeft BehindDisabledDisrespectPostmodernismMuster Author:Daniel Dennett
“I know that might sound perverse because I played Julian Assange but, honestly, I don't think it would be fair for me to judge the man. I realize that makes me a bit of a hypocrite because I was portraying him a certain way, but we were always open to the fact that this was an interpretation, not any kind of exact evidence of who the man was.” ThinkingKnowsMenWayKindFactsMightWould BeCertainBitsSoundRealizingHe ManJudgingEvidenceFairsHonestlyInterpretationHypocritePortrayingAssange Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“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
“All interpretations made by a scientist are hypotheses, and all hypotheses are tentative. They must forever be tested and they must be revised if found to be unsatisfactory. Hence, a change of mind in a scientist, and particularly in a great scientist, is not only not a sign of weakness but rather evidence for continuing attention to the respective problem and an ability to test the hypothesis again and again.” IfsMindMadeProblemScienceFoundAbilityAttentionForeverWeaknessEvidenceTestsScientistInterpretationAgain And AgainContinuingTestedHypothesisGreat ScientistMind Changing Author:Ernst Mayr