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Freeman Dyson : The progress of science requires the growth of understanding in both directions, downward from the whole to the parts and upward from the parts to the whole. A reductionist philosophy, arbitrarily proclaiming that the growth of understanding must go only in one direction, makes no scientific sense. Indeed, dogmatic philosophical beliefs of any kind have no place in science. # Philosophers and Philosophy # Science and Scientists # Belief

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Sir Eric Ashby : " The engineer is the key figure in the material progress of the world. It is his engineering that makes a reality of the potential value of science by translating scientific knowledge into tools, resources, energy and labor to bring them into the service of man ... To make contributions of this kind the engineer requires the imagination to visualize the needs of society and to appreciate what is possible as well as the technological and broad social age understanding to bring his vision to reality. " # Philosophers and Philosophy # Science and Scientists # Belief

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David Hume : " Nature has pointed out a mixed kind of life as most suitable to the human race, and secretly admonished them to allow none of these biases to draw too much, so as to incapacitate them for other occupations and entertainments. Indulge your passion for science, says she, but let your science be human, and such as may have a direct reference to action and society. Abstruse thought and profound researches I prohibit, and will severely punish, by the pensive melancholy which they introduce, by the endless uncertainty in which they involve you, and by the cold reception which your pretended discoveries shall meet with, when communicated. Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man. " # Philosophers and Philosophy # Science and Scientists # Belief

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Thomas H Huxley : " It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodelling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the directions of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward. " # Philosophers and Philosophy # Science and Scientists # Belief

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Bryan Magee : " As Voltaire once remarked, 'It is the privilege of the real genius, especially one who opens up a new path, to make great mistakes with impunity.' The Copernican revolution brought about by Kant was, I think, the most important single turning point in the history of philosophy. For that reason there has been, ever since, a watershed in understanding between those who have taken his work on board and those who have not. For a good many of the problems he uncovered, the solutions he put forward have not stood the test of time, but his uncovering of the problems remains the most illuminating thing a philosopher has ever done. Because of the fundamental character of these problems, and because Kant did not solve them, confronting them has been the most important challenge to philosophy ever since. " # Philosophers and Philosophy # Science and Scientists # Belief

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Dalai Lama : " My confidence in venturing into science lies in my basic belief that as in science so in Buddhism, understanding the nature of reality is pursued by means of critical investigation: if scientific analysis were conclusively to demonstrate certain claims in Buddhism to be false, then we must accept the findings of science and abandon those claims. " # Philosophers and Philosophy # Science and Scientists # Belief

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Thomas H Huxley : " Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense. " # Philosophers and Philosophy # Science and Scientists # Belief

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Oliver Wendell Holmes : " Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if it has common sense on the ground floor. " # Philosophers and Philosophy # Science and Scientists # Belief

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Joseph Joubert : " The direction of the mind is more important than its progress. " # Philosophers and Philosophy # Science and Scientists # Belief

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Immanuel Kant : " I freely admit: it was David Hume's remark that first, many years ago, interrupted my dogmatic slumber and gave a completely different direction to my enquiries in the field of speculative philosophy. " # Philosophers and Philosophy # Science and Scientists # Belief

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George Santayana : " Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. " # Philosophers and Philosophy # Science and Scientists # Belief

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Freeman Dyson: " It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear." # Fear

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Freeman Dyson: " There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use." # Tools

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Freeman Dyson: " A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering." # Engineering # Science and Scientists # Ideas

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Freeman Dyson: " It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment." # Problems

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Freeman Dyson: " The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence." # Space # Destiny # Life and Living

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Freeman Dyson: " A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become good if enough people fight for it in a spirit of comradeship and self-sacrifice. In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad." # Causes # Murder # Love

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Freeman Dyson: " If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. Whoever concerns himself with big technology, either to push it forward or to stop it, is gambling in human lives." # Technology # Action # Gambling

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Freeman Dyson: " I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful in past centuries, has recently ended in divorce." # Marriage # Divorce # Mathematics

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Freeman Dyson: " I have felt it myself. The glitter of nuclear weapons. It is irresistible if you come to them as a scientist. To feel it's there in your hands, to release this energy that fuels the stars, to let it do your bidding. To perform these miracles, to lift a million tons of rock into the sky. It is something that gives people an illusion of illimitable power, and it is, in some ways, responsible for all our troubles - this, what you might call technical arrogance, that overcomes people when they see what they can do with their minds." # Time and Time Management # Love # Miracles

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Freeman Dyson: " The more I examine the universe and the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known we were coming." # Architecture

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