
— Robert Maynard Hutchins philosopher and university president 1899 - 1977
Great Books: The Foundation of a Liberal Education (1954)
Great Books: The Foundation of a Liberal Education (1954)
— Robert Maynard Hutchins philosopher and university president 1899 - 1977
Great Books: The Foundation of a Liberal Education (1954)
— Robert Maynard Hutchins philosopher and university president 1899 - 1977
Great Books: The Foundation of a Liberal Education (1954)
— Robert Maynard Hutchins philosopher and university president 1899 - 1977
Great Books: The Foundation of a Liberal Education (1954)
— William John Macquorn Rankine civil engineer 1820 - 1872
p, 125
"On the Harmony of Theory and Practice in Mechanics" (Jan. 3, 1856)
— Bertrand Russell logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist 1872 - 1970
"The Regressive Method of Discovering the Premises of Mathematics" (1907), in Essays in Analysis (1973), pp. 273–274
1900s
— Paul Karl Feyerabend, libro Contro il metodo
is nothing but another and most convenient fairy-tale. Primitive tribes has more detailed classifications of animals and plant than contemporary scientific zoology and botany, they know remedies whose effectiveness astounds physicians (while the pharmaceutical industry already smells here a new source of income), they have means of influencing their fellow men which science for a long time regarded as non-existent (voodoo), they solve difficult problems in ways which are still not quite understood (building of the pyramids; Polynesian travels), there existed a highly developed and internationally known astronomy in the old Stone Age, this astronomy was factually adequate as well as emotionally satisfying, it solved both physical and social problems (one cannot say the same about modern astronomy) and it was tested in very simple and ingenious ways (stone observatories in England and in the South Pacific; astronomical schools in Polynesia - for a more details treatment an references concerning all these assertions cf. my Einfuhrung in die Naturphilosophie). There was the domestication of animals, the invention of rotating agriculture, new types of plants were bred and kept pure by careful avoidance of cross fertilization, we have chemical inventions, we have a most amazing art that can compare with the best achievement of the present. True, there were no collective excursions to the moon, but single individuals, disregarding great dangers to their soul and their sanity, rose from sphere to sphere to sphere until they finally faced God himself in all His splendor while others changed into animals and back into humans again. At all times man approached his surroundings with wide open senses and a fertile intelligence, at all times he made incredible discoveries, at all times we can learn from his ideas.
Pg. 306-307
Against Method (1975)
— Hendrik Casimir Dutch physicist 1909 - 2000
in his memoirs, as quoted by [Jean Matricon, G. Waysand, Charles Glashausser, The cold wars: a history of superconductivity, Rutgers University Press, 2003, 0813532957, 18]
„To prepare teachers in the method of the experimental sciences is not an easy matter.“
— Maria Montessori Italian pedagogue, philosopher and physician 1870 - 1952
Origine: The Montessori Method (1912), Ch. 1 : A Critical Consideration of the New Pedagogy in its Relation to Modern Science, p. 7.
Contesto: To prepare teachers in the method of the experimental sciences is not an easy matter. When we shall have instructed them in anthropometry and psychometry in the most minute manner possible, we shall have only created machines, whose usefulness will be most doubtful. Indeed, if it is after this fashion that we are to initiate our teachers into experiment, we shall remain forever in the field of theory. The teachers of the old school, prepared according to the principles of metaphysical philosophy, understood the ideas of certain men regarded as authorities, and moved the muscles of speech in talking of them, and the muscles of the eye in reading their theories. Our scientific teachers, instead, are familiar with certain instruments and know how to move the muscles of the hand and arm in order to use these instruments; besides this, they have an intellectual preparation which consists of a series of typical tests, which they have, in a barren and mechanical way, learned how to apply.
The difference is not substantial, for profound differences cannot exist in exterior technique alone, but lie rather within the inner man. Not with all our initiation into scientific experiment have we prepared new masters, for, after all, we have left them standing without the door of real experimental science; we have not admitted them to the noblest and most profound phase of such study, — to that experience which makes real scientists.
— Jerry Coyne American biologist 1949
" A belated reply from Francis Spufford, who defends his faith http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2012/10/02/a-belated-reply-from-francis-spufford-who-defends-his-faith/" October 2, 2012
— Russell L. Ackoff Scientist 1919 - 2009
Origine: 1950s, The development of operations research as a science, 1956, p. 265, the lead paragraph ; Cited in: Joe Kelly (1969) Organizational behaviour. p. 26.
— Alistair Cameron Crombie Australian zoologist, historian of science 1915 - 1996
Robert Grosseteste and the Origins of Experimental Science 1100-1700 (1953)
— John Stuart Mill, libro Autobiography
Origine: Autobiography (1873)
Origine: https://archive.org/details/autobiography01mill/page/160/mode/1up pp. 160-161
— Gwynfor Evans Welsh politician 1912 - 2005
Welsh Nationalist Aims http://www.gwynfor.net/lluniau/welsh-nationalist-aims.pdf Published 1966-1970.
— E. Wight Bakke American sociologist and economist (1903-1971) 1903 - 1971
E. Wight Bakke "Industrial Relations Research," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 92, no. 5, p. 379, November, 1948. As cited in: Tannenbaum, Weschler, and Massarik (1961; 8)
— Émile Durkheim French sociologist (1858-1917) 1858 - 1917
Origine: The Division of Labor in Society (1893), p. 40
— John Gray British philosopher 1948
Cross-correspondences (p. 69-70)
The Immortalization Commission: The Strange Quest to Cheat Death (2011)
— Friedrich Hayek Austrian and British economist and Nobel Prize for Economics laureate 1899 - 1992
Lecture IV. The Decline of the Rule of Law - 25. The Task for Liberty- Loving Statesmen
1940s–1950s, The Political Ideal of the Rule of Law (1955)
— Jerzy Neyman Polish statistician 1894 - 1981
Proceedings of the Berkeley Symposium on Mathematical Statistics and Probability. Vol. 1. http://books.google.com/books?id=p2T2bxyDSLMC&pg=PA48 University of California Press, 1949, p. 48.