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“Hitherto the principle of causality was universally accepted as an indispensable postulate of scientific research, but now we are told by some physicists that it must be thrown overboard. The fact that such an extraordinary opinion should be expressed in responsible scientific quarters is widely taken to be significant of the all-round unreliability of human knowledge. This indeed is a very serious situation.”

Source: The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics

“Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.”

Humans Knowledge Sun Candle Altars Human Knowledge

Book:Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol

Source: Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol

“Humans crave knowledge, and when that craving ends, we are no longer human.”

Humans Ends Knowledge Crave Craving Human Knowledge

Book:Fallen

Source: Fallen

“I don't think happiness is necessarily the reason we're here. I think we're here to learn and evolve, and the pursuit of knowledge is what alleviates the pain of being human.”

Thinking Humans Reason Pain Knowledge Pursuit Evolve Being Human Pursuit Of Knowledge Alleviate Human Knowledge

Author:Sting

“The true bounds and limitations, whereby human knowledge is confined and circumscribed,... are three: the first, that we do not so place our felicity in knowledge, as we forget our mortality: the second, that we make application of our knowledge, to give ourselves repose and contentment, and not distates or repining: the third, that we do not presume by the contemplation of Nature to attain to the mysteries of God.”

“Upon a given body to generate and superinduce a new nature or new natures is the work and aim of human power. To discover the Form of a given nature, or its true difference, or its causal nature, or fount of its emanation... this is the work and aim of human knowledge.”

Humans Body Form Given Differences Knowledge Aim Human Knowledge Human Power

Book:The Novum Organon,: Or a True Guide to the Interpretation of Nature

Source: The Novum Organon,: Or a True Guide to the Interpretation of Nature

“I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.”

“We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.”

Inspirational Humans Spirit Religion Spirituality Knowledge Drinking Human Knowledge Moonshine

Author:H. L. Mencken

“Botany, the science of the vegetable kingdom, is one of the most attractive, most useful, and most extensive departments of human knowledge. It is, above every other, the science of beauty.”

Humans Science Knowledge Accounts Kingdoms Attractive Department Vegetables Human Knowledge Botany

Author:Joseph Paxton

“In less than eight years "The Origin of Species" has produced conviction in the minds of a majority of the most eminent living men of science. New facts, new problems, new difficulties as they arise are accepted, solved, or removed by this theory; and its principles are illustrated by the progress and conclusions of every well established branch of human knowledge.”

Source: Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection: A Series of Essays

“All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.”

Humans Ideas Ends Science Knowledge Concepts Intuition Human Knowledge

Author:Immanuel Kant

“I will frankly tell you that my experience in prolonged scientific investigations convinces me that a belief in God-a God who is behind and within the chaos of vanishing points of human knowledge-adds a wonderful stimulus to the man who attempts to penetrate into the regions of the unknown.”

“'Facts' are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.”

Knows Humans Facts Science Knowledge Bounds Human Knowledge

Book:The Will to Believe and Human Immortality

Source: The Will to Believe and Human Immortality

“Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.”

Knows Humans Science Causes Known Knowledge Effects Operations Contemplation Knowledge Is Power Human Knowledge Human Power

Book:Selected Philosophical Works

Source: Selected Philosophical Works

“No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories and common notions, and to apply the understanding, thus made fair and even, to a fresh examination of particulars. Thus it happens that human knowledge, as we have it, is a mere medley and ill-digested mass, made up of much credulity and much accident, and also of the childish notions which we at first imbibed.”

Mind Firsts Humans Made Happens Science Purpose Found Understanding Common Knowledge Theory Mass Fairs Mere Notion Ill Accidents Firm Examination Credulity Human Knowledge Medley

Book:The Great Instauration

Source: The Great Instauration

“Philosophy stands in need of a science which shall determine the possibility, principles, and extent of human knowledge à priori.”

Needs Humans Philosophy Science Principles Knowledge Possibility Determine Human Knowledge

Author:Immanuel Kant

“To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of human ignorance must be in one view rather pleasing, viz., that though we are to live forever we may be continually amused and delighted with learning something new.”

Source: Writings, Collected and Ed. with a Life and Introd

“[Mathematics] is security. Certainty. Truth. Beauty. Insight. Structure. Architecture. I see mathematics, the part of human knowledge that I call mathematics, as one thing - one great, glorious thing. Whether it is differential topology, or functional analysis, or homological algebra, it is all one thing. ... They are intimately interconnected, they are all facets of the same thing. That interconnection, that architecture, is secure truth and is beauty. That's what mathematics is to me.”

“On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake.”

Humans Certain Knowledge Mathematics Including Fake Branches Human Knowledge Exactness Exactitude

Author:Alfred North Whitehead

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