The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition
In the seventeenth century physical discovery paved the way for the incorporation of the sciences, although it was not until the nineteenth that these began to challenge the very continuance of the ancient intellectual disciplines. And in this period the change gained momentum, aided by two developments of overwhelming influence.
Richard M. Weaver • Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition
Instrumentalism, even aside from the philosophical enormity of reducing science to a collection of statements about human experiences, does not make sense in its own terms. For there is no such thing as a purely predictive, explanationless theory. One cannot make even the simplest prediction without invoking quite a sophisticated explanatory framew... See more
David Deutsch • The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
― Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Yoko Ono — An Vu
IN MODERN thought the awareness that there is something out there that we are not yet awake enough to see is the engine that drives the investigative mind. Relentless and systematic questioning: this is the spirit of scientific intelligence. In this spirit we dissect to see what connects, we dismember to understand the whole, we kill to catch life
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