Science Quotes

"Content individuates mental states."

"Causation makes representation possible."

"The transparency of mental content depends on access."

"The individuation of beliefs depends on external circumstances."

"Proper function depends on evolutionary or design history."

"Content is determined by actual historical relations."

"Causal mechanisms underlie all cognitive functions."

"Science aims at empirical adequacy, not necessarily at truth about unobservables."

"Our best science may still leave many questions about reality unanswered."

"The success of science does not require that our theories be literally true."

"The line between observation and theory is not as sharp as we might wish."

"Our theories are tools for prediction and control, not mirrors of reality."

"Accepting a theory is accepting its consequences for action and prediction."

"Science does not answer the question of why there is something rather than nothing."

"Empirical adequacy is a modest but achievable goal for our theories."

"Our theories carve nature at its joints, but only provisionally."

"Science is a conversation between the mind and the world, not a monologue."

"Theories fail not because they are false but because they become empirically inadequate."

"The success of a theory is no guarantee of its truth."

"Observable phenomena are the court of final appeal for scientific theories."

"The scientist must be both creative and disciplined by evidence."

"Science progresses not by proving theories true but by showing them inadequate."

"Empirical success often outpaces our understanding of why theories work."

"Observations are never theory-neutral; they always carry conceptual baggage."

"The history of science is a history of revised observational standards."

"The practicing scientist need not solve all philosophical problems about science."

"Every observation is an interpretation of natural phenomena."

"The limits of observation are also limits on what science can establish."

"Empirical adequacy is sufficient for scientific purposes."

"Science illuminates the how; wisdom addresses the why."