If I believe my ability is small, then my efforts will be shallow and my push weak. If I think I am not capable, I will not try with energy. Without strong belief, I won’t seek the knowledge required to achieve my goals. I will not launch out into the deep or push against obstacles with the force that confidence brings.
Stella PaytonTag: knowledge energy belief confidence weak effort push obstacles ability capable
The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn. The less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything...
Robert G. IngersollTag: honesty knowledge understanding conceit learn willing
This man [Alexander von Humboldt] is as knowledgeable as a whole academy.
Claude-Louis BertholletTag: knowledge admiration honor praise recognition alexander-von-humboldt scientist
Columbus gave Europe a New World; [Alexander von] Humboldt made it known in its physical, material, intellectual, and moral aspects.
José Cipriano de la Luz y CaballeroTag: science knowledge admiration honor praise alexander-humboldt alexander-von-humboldt humboldt new-world columbus christopher-columbus
Listen with an open heart
William O'BrienTag: truth knowledge humanity philosophy magic spirituality mystical healing-insights
I am an atheist and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for other people.
Katharine HepburnTag: kindness knowledge morality belief selflessness atheism atheist caring
One increasingly hears rumors of a reconciliation between science and religion. In major news magazines as well as at academic conferences, the claim is made that that belief in the success of science in describing the workings of the world is no longer thought to be in conflict with faith in God. I would like to argue against this trend, in favor of a more old-fashioned point of view that is still more characteristic of most scientists, who tend to disbelieve in any religious component to the workings of the universe.
Sean CarrollTag: science knowledge universe understanding superstition academia irreligious irreligion science-and-religion
If the ignorance of nature gave birth to such a variety of gods, the knowledge of this nature is calculated to destroy them.
Paul-Henri ThiryTag: knowledge nature atheism ignorance atheist destruction gods god-of-the-gaps
The world needs wisdom as it has never needed it before; and if knowledge continues to increase, the world will need wisdom in the future even more than it does now.
Bertrand RussellWhich do you think is more valuable to humanity?
a. Finding ways to tell humans that they have free will despite the incontrovertible fact that their actions are completely dictated by the laws of physics as instantiated in our bodies, brains and environments? That is, engaging in the honored philosophical practice of showing that our notion of "free will" can be compatible with determinism?
or
b. Telling people, based on our scientific knowledge of physics, neurology, and behavior, that our actions are predetermined rather than dictated by some ghost in our brains, and then sussing out the consequences of that conclusion and applying them to society?
Of course my answer is b).
Tag: science knowledge determinism society philosophy nature physics ghosts brains neurology laws-of-physics illusion-of-free-will
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