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“During the first half of the present century we had an Alexander von Humboldt, who was able to scan the scientific knowledge of his time in its details, and to bring it within one vast generalization. At the present juncture, it is obviously very doubtful whether this task could be accomplished in a similar way, even by a mind with gifts so peculiarly suited for the purpose as Humboldt's was, and if all his time and work were devoted to the purpose.”

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Author:Hermann von Helmholtz

“Bohr’s standpoint, that a space-time description is impossible, I reject a limine. Physics does not consist only of atomic research, science does not consist only of physics, and life does not consist only of science. The aim of atomic research is to fit our empirical knowledge concerning it into our other thinking. All of this other thinking, so far as it concerns the outer world, is active in space and time. If it cannot be fitted into space and time, then it fails in its whole aim and one does not know what purpose it really serves.”

“Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.”

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Book:Where is science going?

Source: Where is science going?

“The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.”

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Book:I Am Right, You are Wrong: From this to the New Renaissance : from Rock Logic to Water Logic

Source: I Am Right, You are Wrong: From this to the New Renaissance : from Rock Logic to Water Logic

“Droll thing life is -- that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself -- that comes too late -- a crop of inextinguishable regrets.”

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Book:Heart of Darkness and Other Stories

Source: Heart of Darkness and Other Stories

“For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And along the way, lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.”

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Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without any purpose - which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell. Possibly. It doesn't frighten me.”

“Real freedom comes from the mastery, through knowledge, of historic conditions and race character, which makes possible a free and intelligent use of experience for the purpose of progress.”

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Author:Hamilton Wright Mabie

“Every branch of knowledge which a good man possesses, he may apply to some good purpose.”

Men May Purpose Knowledge Branches Good Man

Book:Two Discourses Preached Before the University of Cambridge, on Commencement Sunday, July 1, 1810: And a Sermon Preached Before the Society for Missions to Africa and the East; at Their Tenth Anniversary, July 12, 1810. To which are Added Christian Researches in Asia

Source: Two Discourses Preached Before the University of Cambridge, on Commencement Sunday, July 1, 1810: And a Sermon Preached Before the Society for Missions to Africa and the East; at Their Tenth Anniversary, July 12, 1810. To which are Added Christian Researches in Asia

“The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.”

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Author:Novalis

“In my mind, the purpose of education is to enable human beings to develop to their full potential, intellectually and spiritually. That means that students have to be empowered to pursue self-knowledge and the skills that will help them be of service to their fellow human beings. Education should encourage people to develop their curiosity about life; above all, it should not trivialize either the students or their lives.”

“What we call knowledge does not and cannot have the purpose of producing representations of an independent reality, but instead has an adaptive function.”

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Author:Ernst von Glasersfeld

“It is often claimed that knowledge multiplies so rapidly that nobody can follow it. I believe this is incorrect. At least in science it is not true. The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler. This, of course, goes contrary to what everyone accepts.”

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Book:Conversations on the Dark Secrets of Physics

Source: Conversations on the Dark Secrets of Physics

“For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing, and also of the current which after a time draws us away from it.”

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Book:Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two

Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two

“This missing science of heredity, this unworked mine of knowledge on the borderland of biology and anthropology, which for all practical purposes is as unworked now as it was in the days of Plato, is, in simple truth, ten times more important to humanity than all the chemistry and physics, all the technical and indsutrial science that ever has been or ever will be discovered.”

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Author:George Herbert

“In order that the facts obtained by observation and experiment may be capable of being used in furtherance of our exact and solid knowledge, they must be apprehended and analysed according to some Conceptions which, applied for this purpose, give distinct and definite results, such as can be steadily taken hold of and reasoned from.”

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Book:Novum Organon Renovatum

Source: Novum Organon Renovatum

“I have been asked whether I would agree that the tragedy of the scientist is that he is able to bring about great advances in our knowledge, which mankind may then proceed to use for purposes of destruction. My answer is that this is not the tragedy of the scientist; it is the tragedy of mankind.”

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Author:Leo Szilard

“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.”

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Book:The Great Instauration

Source: The Great Instauration

“Science moves, but slowly, slowly, creeping on from point to point. ... Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns. ... Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.”

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Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“The life and soul of science is its practical application, and just as the great advances in mathematics have been made through the desire of discovering the solution of problems which were of a highly practical kind in mathematical science, so in physical science many of the greatest advances that have been made from the beginning of the world to the present time have been made in the earnest desire to turn the knowledge of the properties of matter to some purpose useful to mankind.”

“The purpose of science is to develop, without prejudice or preconception of any kind, a knowledge of the facts, the laws, and the processes of nature. The even more important task of religion, on the other hand, is to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind.”

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Book:The electron, its isolation and measurement ant the determination of some of its properties

Source: The electron, its isolation and measurement ant the determination of some of its properties

“Scientific modes of thought cannot be developed and become generally accepted unless people renounce their primary, unreflecting, and spontaneous attempt to understand all their experience in terms of its purpose and meaning for themselves. The development that led to more adequate knowledge and increasing control of nature was therefore, considered from one aspect, also a development toward greater self-control by men.”

Source: The history of manners

“Knowing the plumbing of the universe, intricate and awe-inspiring though that plumbing might be, is a far cry from discovering its purpose.”

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Author:Gerald Schroeder

“Man cannot live without some knowledge of the purpose of life. If he can find no purpose in life he creates one in the inevitability of death.”

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Author:Chester Himes