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“Every time that we consider our past, examine our present environment, and speculate about the future, we engage in mental projection. Contemplation merges into thinking, and thinking unspools into theorizing suppositions. Every act of attentiveness expands our state of awareness. Deductive surmises represent an ongoing process of making applicable connections between theories and facts. Devising working hypothesis represents one of the highest intellectual achievements of humankind.”

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Book:Dead Toad Scrolls

Source: Dead Toad Scrolls

“The only way to make a picture into a theory is to take it overliterally, to treat it as if it were a theory and see how it needs to be refined.”

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Book:Philosophy of Language (text only) 2nd(Second) edition by W. G. Lycan

Source: Philosophy of Language (text only) 2nd(Second) edition by W. G. Lycan

“Science proceeds by inference, rather than by the deduction of mathematical proof. A series of observations is accumulated, forcing the deeper question: What must be true if we are to explain what is observed? What "big picture" of reality offers the best fit to what is actually observed in our experience? American scientist and philosopher Charles S. Peirce used the term "abduction" to refer to the way in which scientists generate theories that might offer the best explanation of things. The method is now more often referred to as "inference to the best explanation." It is now widely agreed to be the philosophy of investigation of the world characteristic of the natural sciences.”

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Author:Alister E. McGrath

“Today we demand justice for the oppressed. We no longer accept atrocities as the inescapable fate of the defenceless. We desire and expect a better future. But when confronted with the enormity of injustice and what it demands of us, we retreat into the familiar ritual of intellectualization and moral posturing, recycling lofty liberal ideals from a safe distance. We avoid the intimate knowledge of suffering without which we will never understand the imperative of human rights.”

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Book:In Search of A Better World: A Human Rights Odyssey

Source: In Search of A Better World: A Human Rights Odyssey

“The problem with the world is not a shortage of brilliant theories or feel-good slogans. The problem is that we confuse proliferation of progressive terminology with profound empathy and purposeful engagement.”

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Book:In Search of A Better World: A Human Rights Odyssey

Source: In Search of A Better World: A Human Rights Odyssey