“My son, I do not say these are foals and those asses, these little monkeys and those great baboons, as you would have me do. As I told you from the first, I regard them as earth's heroes. But I do not wish to believe them without cause, nor to accept those propositions whose antitheses (as you must have understood if you are not both blind and deaf) are so compellingly true.” IfsFirstsBelieveLittlesEarthWishCausesAcceptingAtheismSonHeroUnderstoodRegardBlindAssMy SonMonkeysPropositionsDeafAntithesisBaboonsFoals Book:Cause, Principle, and Unity: Five Dialogues Source: Cause, Principle, and Unity: Five Dialogues
“The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions [than we can ever know]. But with regard to those few which the human intellect does understand, I believe that its knowledge equals the Divine in objective certainty.” KnowsBelieveHumansDoeI BelieveDivineRegardIntellectObjectivesCertaintyPropositions Author:Galileo Galilei
“Now that I know how supermarket meat is made, I regard eating it as a somewhat risky proposition. I know how those animals live and what's on their hides when they go to slaughter, so I don't buy industrial meat.” KnowsMadeAnimalKnow HowEatingRegardMeatPropositionsSlaughterSupermarkets Author:Michael Pollan
“Unfortunately, philosophers of science usually regard scientific realism and scientific anti-realism as monistic doctrines. The assumption is that there is one goal of all scientific inference - finding propositions that are true, or finding propositions that are predictively accurate. In fact, there are multiple goals. Sometimes realism is the right interpretation of a scientific problem, while at other times instrumentalism is.” SometimesFactsProblemGoalFindingsRegardPhilosopherDoctrineAssumptionInterpretationAccurateRealismMultiplePropositionsInference Author:Elliott Sober
“The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.” IfsMotherStepsModernEssenceRegardCosmicPropositionsPantheismStep Mother Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Science is only truly consistent with an atheistic worldview with regards to the claimed miracles of the gods of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Moreover, the true believers in each of these faiths are atheists regarding the specific sacred tenets of all other faiths. Christianity rejects the proposition that the Quran contains the infallible words of the creator of the universe. Muslims and Jews reject the divinity of Jesus.” ReligionUniverseJesusChristianityAtheismMiracleRegardSacredIslamAtheistJewCreatorBelieverDivinityConsistentRejectsPropositionsJudaismWorldviewQuranInfallibleAtheisticTrue BelieverChristianity And Islam Author:Lawrence M. Krauss
“Not that the propositions of geometry are only approximately true, but that they remain absolutely true in regard to that Euclidean space which has been so long regarded as being the physical space of our experience.” LongHas BeensSpaceRegardPropositionsGeometry Author:Arthur Cayley