Occupation: Philosopher Birth: January 13, 1924 Death: February 11, 1994
There is not a single rule, however plausible, and however firmly grounded in epistemology, that is not violated at some time or other. It becomes ev….
The world we inhabit is abundant beyond our wildest imagination. There are trees, dreams, sunrises; there are thunderstorms, shadows, rivers; there a….
I do not see why I should be polite to tyrants, who slobber of humanitarianism and think only of their own petty interests..
Traditions are neither good nor bad, they simply are... Rationality is not an arbiter of traditions, it is itself a tradition or an aspect of a tradi….
If the world is an aggregate of relatively independent regions, then any assumption of universal laws is false and a demand for universal norms tyran….
Yes, the academic world is screwed up, and there is nothing you can do about it. But don't worry about that. Just do what you want. If you know what ….
Science is much closer to myth than a scientific philosophy is prepared to admit. It is one of the many forms of thought that have been developed by ….
Humane science must be adapted to the requirements of a balanced and rewarding life..
Ultimate Reality, if such an entity can be postulated, is ineffable..
The church at the time was much more faithful to reason than Galileo himself, and also took into consideration the ethical and social consequences of….
The separation of science and non-science is not only artificial but also detrimental to the advancement of knowledge. If we want to understand natur….
Taking experimental results and observations for granted and putting the burden of proof on the theory means taking the observational ideology for gr….
Science is essentially an anarchic enterprise: theoretical anarchism is more humanitarian and more likely to encourage progress than its law-and-orde….
Given any rule, however �fundamental� or �necessary� for science, there are always circumstances when it is advisable not only to ignore the rule, bu….
My intention is not to replace one set of general rules by another such set: my intention is, rather, to convince the reader that all methodologies, ….
Knowledge is not a series of self-consistent theories that converges toward an ideal view; it is rather an ever increasing ocean of mutually incompat….
The separation of state and church must be complemented by the separation of state and science, that most recent, most aggressive, and most dogmatic ….
First-world science is one science among many; by claiming to be more it ceases to be an instrument of research and turns into a (political) pressure….
Confronted with such a variety most philosophers try to establish one approach to the exclusion of all others. As far as they are concerned there can….
No single theory ever agrees with all the facts in its domain.
The only absolute truth is that there are no absolute truths..