Science Quotes

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"Careful attention to the world of experience is fundamental to all scientific inquiry."
Russell, Bertrand
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"It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it."
Russell, Bertrand
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"The depth of reality is concealed from the technological consciousness."
Buber, Martin
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"Science is a sacred obligation to know the truth."
Weil, Simone
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"Science reveals the structure but not the meaning of things."
Rosenzweig, Franz
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"Science is the process of knowledge production."
Althusser, Louis
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"Science is not value-free."
Althusser, Louis
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"Science reveals nature's refusal to submit to reason."
Blanchot, Maurice
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"The science of the soul is written in the excesses of the body."
Bataille, Georges
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"Science must serve humanity, not dominate it."
Gramsci, Antonio
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"Science must serve humanity, not dominate it."
Lukács, György
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"Science is what you know well enough to teach to a computer. Everything else is art."
Russell, Bertrand
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"The silent birth of the child of reason in the womb of empiricism is not yet consummated."
Russell, Bertrand
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"Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true."
Russell, Bertrand
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"Mathematics is the only subject where the mind is satisfied completely with the truth."
Russell, Bertrand
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"Science must be understood not as neutral truth, but as a practice embedded within ideological structures."
Althusser, Louis
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"Science can liberate or enslave depending on its masters."
Marcuse, Herbert
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"Science is our attempt to rationalize the sacred into oblivion."
Bataille, Georges
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"Science serves power, not truth."
Horkheimer, Max
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"Scientific knowledge is not objective fact but knowledge produced within ideological frameworks."
Althusser, Louis
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"Science claims objectivity but operates within ideological parameters that shape its questions and answers."
Althusser, Louis
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"Science divorced from ethics becomes a weapon against humanity."
Horkheimer, Max
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"Scientific progress without moral progress is regression."
Horkheimer, Max
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"The sociology of knowledge must account for how social structures shape what counts as knowledge."
Habermas, Jürgen
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"The validity of scientific claims depends partly on the integrity of the communicative contexts in which they arise."
Habermas, Jürgen
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"Scientific reason became instrumental reason when divorced from ethical consideration."
Adorno, Theodor
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"Science without ethical grounding becomes instrumental domination"
Marcuse, Herbert
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"Science captured by capital serves profit not liberation"
Marcuse, Herbert
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"Science can claim objectivity only if it recognizes its own ideological premises."
Althusser, Louis
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"The scientific worldview cannot by itself determine how we should live together."
Habermas, Jürgen