“Aaron 'Hotch' Hotchner: Prentiss, this is the job, and I need to know that you can be objective. Emily Prentiss: And I need to know that I can be human.”— Dan Dworkin, Jay Beattie, Aaron Hotchner, Thomas Gibson, imdb.com
“"I'm an optimist." "Well that's good because there's no irrefutable evidence. There's nothing that could convince someone who doesn't want to be convinced. But there is an abundance of clues that would give the wanting believer something to hold on to."”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“You should maybe try to learn things that would be good for all time. Unquestionable scientific value.”— John Nash, nobelprize.org
“Whatever forces us to assume that there is an essential difference between 'true' and 'false'? Is it not sufficient to assume different levels of semblance, lighter and darker shadows and tones of semblance — different values in the painter's sense of the term?”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“Really, why should we be forced to assume that there is an essential difference between 'true' and 'false' in the first place? Isn't it enough to assume that there are degrees of apparency and, so to speak, lighter and darker shadows and hues of appearance—different valeurs to use the language of pa…”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“The terms in mathematical definitions or axioms can never be fully defined, but at one point or another must be resolved on grounds other than those of formal mathematics, grounds where persons have some general agreement regarding the meaning of words in real life, as the foundations of mathematics…”— Walter J Ong, amazon.com
“The notion of a law of nature did not arise out of the practice of science itself. Sometime in the seventeenth century, it was imported into discourse about science from Christian theology, both directly, and indirectly through mathematics. Originally, laws of nature were understood as God's laws fo…”— Ronald N. Giere, amazon.com
“There is exactly one true and complete description of 'the way the world is.”— Hilary Putnam , amazon.com
“The nature of the knowledge itself was rarely questioned. It was taken for granted that scientists were discovering the objectively real inner workings of nature. These workings are there to be discovered. It only takes effort, sometimes requiring huge expenditures of resources, to uncover them. Thi…”— Ronald N. Giere, amazon.com
“Perspectival seeing is the only kind of seeing there is, perspectival 'knowing' the only kind of 'knowing'; and the more feelings about a matter which we allow to come to expression, the more eyes, different eyes through which we are able to view this same matter, the more complete our 'conception'…”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“Beliefs empower people. According to Nietzsche, people believe certain ideas because they help people live and get around in the world, but he wonders why these helpful ideas must be called True. For Nietzsche, other adjectives are just as informative as to why we hold these beliefs, for example, be…”— Linda L. Williams, amazon.com