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Modern science has no dogma. Yet it has a common core of research methods, which are all based on collecting empirical observations – those we can observe with at least one of our senses – and putting them together with the help of mathematical tools.
Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens
A science is any organized body of knowledge that is possessed of first principles. The first principles of any science are those fundamental truths upon which the science is founded and by which all its activities are informed.
D.Q. McInerny • Being Logical
Rauch expresses the fundamental difference between liberal science and the two postmodern principles, especially as seen in applied and reified postmodernism, concisely: “liberal science insists absolutely on freedom of belief and speech, but freedom of knowledge it rejects absolutely” (emphasis in original).27 People in liberal systems are free to
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This form of explanationless science is just bad philosophy disguised as science.
David Deutsch • The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
Anti-Charlatanism
Critiques of techno-optimism, authoritarian tactics and propaganda, and other snake-oil assaults against humanity
JD Goulet • 7 cards
This is the deep reason secular people cherish scientific truth: not in order to satisfy their curiosity, but in order to know how best to reduce the suffering in the world. Without the guidance of scientific studies, our compassion is often blind.
Yuval Noah Harari • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
strange misapplication of the rigorous but quite limited methods of the modern empirical sciences to questions properly belonging to the realms of logic and of spiritual experience.
David Bentley Hart • The Experience of God
The willingness to admit ignorance. Modern science is based on the Latin injunction ignoramus – ‘we do not know’. It assumes that we don’t know everything. Even more critically, it accepts that the things that we think we know could be proven wrong as we gain more knowledge. No concept, idea or theory is sacred and beyond challenge. The centrality
... See moreYuval Noah Harari • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
As science has revealed the laws and equations governing the universe, some scientists have convinced themselves that laws and equations are somehow an alternative to an argument for divine intelligence rather than evidence in its favor—that if one could just reduce the entire universe to an original condition and a set of especially beautiful equa
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