Edward Feser Quotes
Its very nature, scientific investigation takes for granted such assumptions as that: there is a physical world existing independently of our minds; this world is characterized by various objective patterns and regularities; our senses are at least partially reliable sources of information about this world; there are objective laws of logic and mathematics that apply to the objective world outside our minds;Edward Feser
Quotes to Explore
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The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.
A. E. Housman -
Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.
G. H. Hardy -
We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.
Nate Silver -
The State of Israel must be at the forefront of global science - in physics, in mathematics, in medicine, in biology.
Naftali Bennett -
Exact information about the functional significance of the deep sections of the brain is only obtained by working through the brain histologically in serial section.
Walter Rudolf Hess -
Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
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There's detailed information on how to assemble a nuclear weapon from parts. There's books about how to build a nuclear bomb.
Irwin Redlener -
The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.
E. T. Bell -
Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.
Abbas Kiarostami -
Serving up ads based on behavioral targeting can itself be an invasion of privacy, especially when the information used is personal.
Adam Cohen -
No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.
Samuel Butler -
If you're not open, you're not transparent, you're still holding on to vaults of information, you're not going to build that trust.
Gavin Newsom
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Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things.
Lactantius -
Direction coupling between the various radiations generated in a nuclear reaction both with one another and with the initiating radiation can also be detected and measured by coincidences; this provides valuable information about the structure of the atomic nuclei.
Walther Bothe -
With a standard editorial cartoon, you're taking tons of information and synthesizing it down to a single bite - a single moment in time. With animated editorial cartoons, it's more storytelling.
Walt Handelsman -
We can know that the Christian God cannot exist. If he is all-powerful and all-good, as Christians maintain, there would not have been, for instance, the Holocaust. This is an inherent self-contradiction. So if Christians insist on having a God, they can do so, but if they have any respect for logic they'll have to redefine who he is.
Vincent Bugliosi -
The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
Tacitus -
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
Logic
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Logic is logic. That's all I say.
Logic -
Theres a certain logic to systems, and that logic is fairly self-evident. Its very straightforward, usually. It might take a little research, it might take a little bit of industry to prize it out, but its there to be seen.
Michael Nesmith The Monkees -
I have volunteered for Musicians on Call for the past 12 years because of the incredible one-on-one experiences in hospital rooms when no one other than the patient and I would remember the love that was exchanged.
Rachel Platten -
We grow justly weary of our politics. But we must remember this: Politics – in all its grubby, grasping, corrupt, contemptible manifestations – is sovereign in human affairs. Everything ultimately rests upon it. Fairly or not, politics is the driver of history.
Charles Krauthammer -
Its very nature, scientific investigation takes for granted such assumptions as that: there is a physical world existing independently of our minds; this world is characterized by various objective patterns and regularities; our senses are at least partially reliable sources of information about this world; there are objective laws of logic and mathematics that apply to the objective world outside our minds;
Edward Feser