Science Quotes

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"The scientific mind must somehow marry precision with wonder."
Maurice Natanson
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"The figure-ground relationship is fundamental to all human perception and understanding."
Aron Gurwitsch
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"The observer is always implicated in what is observed."
Aron Gurwitsch
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"The perceptual field is structured by a complex interplay of focus and background."
Aron Gurwitsch
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"The phenomenal field is unified not by logical relations but by perceptual organization."
Aron Gurwitsch
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"Science attempts to describe what culture prescribes."
Philip Rieff
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"Science is the mythology of modernity."
Philip Rieff
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"Science advances through questioning."
David Riesman
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"Science reveals nature's secrets."
David Riesman
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"The body is not merely an object to be studied but the very medium of our being-in-the-world."
Maurice Natanson
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"Science seeks to understand nature's laws."
Lucien Goldmann
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"Science demands objectivity and honesty."
Lucien Goldmann
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"The margin of consciousness extends further than we typically acknowledge."
Aron Gurwitsch
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"Perceptual awareness operates through a complex interplay of figure and ground."
Aron Gurwitsch
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"The peripheral field contains what the centered awareness excludes."
Aron Gurwitsch
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"Appearance and essence are woven together in perception."
Aron Gurwitsch
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"Attention transforms the field without changing its fundamental nature."
Aron Gurwitsch
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"The center of the field is always defined against its periphery."
Aron Gurwitsch
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"The margin of consciousness holds what consciousness has relegated to background."
Aron Gurwitsch
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"The phenomenal world is not separate from the physical world but its meaningful aspect."
Aron Gurwitsch
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"The margin of awareness contains what might become central."
Aron Gurwitsch
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"The threshold between focused and marginal awareness is permeable."
Aron Gurwitsch
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"Science reveals the mysteries of existence."
Siegfried Kracauer
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"Science progresses not through the accumulation of facts but through conceptual revolution."
Lucien Goldmann
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"To study culture scientifically is to participate in the ongoing struggle for human liberation."
Lucien Goldmann
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"Science is the poetry of nature."
Ernst Bloch
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"Science without conscience is the ruin of the soul."
Ernst Bloch
"The crisis of knowledge affects science as much as it affects theology."
Walter Benjamin
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"Science is humanity's attempt to understand the dreams embedded in reality."
Ernst Bloch
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"Science is the systematic exploration of what we do not yet understand."
Ernst Bloch