“What we see in nature is not nature in itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.”— Werner Heisenberg, amazon.com
“I had nothing in me. I still have nothing in me. That’s what’s so interesting and nice. I’m just absolutely as far as I can tell open to whatever problem comes and grabs me.”— Hubert Dreyfus, full-tilt.blogspot.com
“While other philosophers of the time naively went about constructing theories of how the brain absorbed true knowledge through the senses (with an admixture of regrettable errata), Nietzsche drew an analogy from his first academic specialty: philology, or the study and interpretation of ancient text…”— orthonormal, lesswrong.com
“There is no one best way to represent knowledge, or to solve problems, and limitations of present-day machine intelligence stem largely from seeking 'unified theories', or trying to repair the deficiencies of theoretically neat, but conceptually impoverished ideological positions. Our purely numeric…”— Marvin Minsky, web.media.mit.edu
“My purpose: to demonstrate the absolute oppressiveness of all events and the application of moral distinctions as conditioned by perspective; to demonstrate how everything praised as moral is identical in essence with everything immoral and was made possible, as in every development of morality, wit…”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“All observational claims made about the object are made in some perspective or other. Before the seventeenth century, the Milky Way, as part of a commonsense perspective on the world, was perceived using human eyes simply as a broad band of light extending across the night sky. From the perspective…”— Ronald N. Giere, amazon.com
“We don't need an answer to the question of life's meaning, just as we don't need a theory of everything. What we need are multifarious descriptions of many things, further descriptions of phenomena that change the aspect under which they are seen, that light them up and let us see them anew.”— Simon Critchley, amazon.com
“Most of us walk around thinking that our view is best— probably because it is the only one we really know. You'd think the fact that we all have major misunderstandings with people at times—squabbles over what was said or what was meant— would clue us in to the reality that so incredibly much is hid…”— Ed Catmull, amazon.com
“For a perspectival realist, the strongest claims a scientist can legitimately make are of a qualified, conditional form: 'According to this highly confirmed theory (or reliable instrument), the world seems to be roughly such and such.' There is no way legitimately to take the further objectivist ste…”— 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
“To see differently, the desire to see differently for once in this way is no small discipline of the intellect and a preparation for its eventual 'objectivity'— this latter understood not as 'disinterested contemplation' (which is a non-concept and a nonsense), but as the capacity to have all the ar…”— 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
“Innis sacrificed point of view and prestige to his sense of the urgent need for insight. A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding. As Innis got more insight he abandoned any mere point of view in his presentation of knowledge. When he interrelates the…”— Marshall McLuhan, amazon.com
“In losing his identity, and having no perspective of his own, Pip can see that all the meanings in the world are meanings taken from one perspective or another. He can see the selfishness involved in thinking of these meanings as ultimate or final precisely because he can see that ultimately each is…”— Hubert Dreyfus, amazon.com