— Doris Lessing British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer 1919 - 2013
Boston Book Review interview by Harvey Blume http://www.dorislessing.org/boston.html (February 1998)
— Heinrich Hertz German physicist 1857 - 1894
As quoted by Ludwig Boltzmann in a letter to Nature (28 February 1895) http://books.google.com/books?id=PnUCAAAAIAAJ
— James Monroe American politician, 5th President of the United States (in office from 1817 to 1825) 1758 - 1831
Message to Congress (December 1822)
— John Theophilus Desaguliers French-born British natural philosopher and clergyman 1683 - 1744
Context: All the knowledge we have of nature depends upon facts; for without observations and experiments our natural philosophy would only be a science of terms and an unintelligible jargon. But then we must call in Geometry and Arithmetics, to our Assistance, unless we are willing to content ourselves with natural History and conjectural Philosophy. For, as many causes concur in the production of compound effects, we are liable to mistake the predominant cause, unless we can measure the quantity and the effect produced, compare them with, and distinguish them from, each other, to find out the adequate cause of each single effect, and what must be the result of their joint action.
p. v: Preface
— Humphry Davy Cornish chemist 1778 - 1829
As quoted in Humphry Davy : Science & Power (1998) by David Knight, p. 87
— Stephen Jay Gould American evolutionary biologist 1941 - 2002
"Glow, Big Glowworm", p. 264
— Roberto Mangabeira Unger Brazilian philosopher and politician 1947
p. 32
— Robert Maynard Hutchins philosopher and university president 1899 - 1977
— Bruce Caldwell (economist) economic historian 1952
Ch. 14 : Journey’s End—Hayek’s Multiple Legacies
— Alan Moore English writer primarily known for his work in comic books 1953
Context: Mind has come up with this brilliant way of looking at the world — science — but it can’t look at itself. Science has no place for the mind. The whole of our science is based upon empirical, repeatable experiments. Whereas thought is not in that category, you can’t take thought into a laboratory. The essential fact of our existence, perhaps the only fact of our existence – our own thought and perception is ruled off-side by the science it has invented. Science looks at the universe, doesn’t see itself there, doesn’t see mind there, so you have a world in which mind has no place. We are still no nearer to coming to terms with the actual dynamics of what consciousness is.
— Ralph Vary Chamberlin American biologist (1879-1967) 1879 - 1967
"Science and Reality" (1931) Bios Vol. 2, No. 1 , p. 39
— Phillip E. Johnson American Law clerk 1940
Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds, 1997, pp. 91-92
— John Gray 1948
Cross-correspondences (p. 69-70)
— Vera Rubin American astronomer 1928 - 2016
As quoted in In Quest of the Universe (2007) https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0763743879, by Theo Koupelis and Karl F. Kuhn, p. 583
— William Arthur (minister) Wesleyan Methodist minister and author 1819 - 1901
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