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Stephen Jay Gould on Consensus Science

Type:: quote
Date:: October 19, 2020
In:: Philosophy of Science

Judgments based on scientific evidence, whether made in a laboratory or a courtroom, are undermined by a categorical refusal even to consider research or views ... » Go

Harrison Bergeron

Type:: paper
Date:: October 01, 1960
In:: Being Human, Ethics

The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody ... » Go

Henry Calderwood on the Theory of Agnosticism

Type:: quote
Date:: February 28, 1891
In:: Agnosticism, God

Agnosticism is a theory of the Unknowable which assumes its most definite form in the denial of the possibility of any knowledge of God. 1st ... » Go

Charles Wesley on the Unity of Knowledge and Piety

Type:: quote
Date:: April 04, 1872
In:: Faith + Reason

Unite the pair so long disjoined, Knowledge and vital piety: Learning and holiness combined, And truth and love, let all men see In those whom ... » Go

Oliver Cromwell on Possibly Being Wrong

Type:: paper
Date:: August 03, 1650
In:: Epistemology

SIRS,Your Answer to the Declaration of the Army we have seen. Some godly Ministers with us did, at Berwick, compose this Reply; which I thought ... » Go

No Man Is an Island

Type:: quote
Date:: January 09, 1624
In:: Being Human, Death

No man is an island entire of itself; every manis a piece of the continent, a part of the main;if a clod be washed away ... » Go

Galileo Galilei to Benedetto Castelli

Type:: paper
Date:: December 21, 1613
In:: History of Science, Philosophy of Science, Religion and Science

Very Reverend Father and My Most Respectable Sir Yesterday Mr. Niccolò Arrighetti came to visit me and told me about you. Thus I took infinite ... » Go