I like the scientific spirit–the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine–it always keeps the way beyond open–always gives life, thought, affection, the whole man, a chance to...
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Walt Whitman
Not only are there meaningless questions, but many of the problems with which the human intellect has tortured itself turn out to be only 'pseudo problems, ' because they can be formulated only in terms of questions which are meaningless. Many of the traditional problems...
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Percy Williams Bridgman
It is now generally admitted, at any rate by philosophers, that the existence of a being having the attributes which define the god of any non-animistic religion cannot be demonstratively proved... [A]ll utterances about the nature of God are nonsensical.
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A.J. Ayer
The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
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Thomas Henry Huxley
There is no quarrel between science and spirituality. I often hear people of science trying to use it to prove the nonexistence of the spiritual, but I simply can't see a chasm in between the two. What is spiritual produces what is scientific and when...
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C. Joybell C.
More Quotes By Robyn Hitchcock
Dreams are a scientific fact.
People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.
