03 SEP 2011 by ideonexus

 Science Laws are Intrinsic, Not Heirarchical

In science, law is not a rule imposed from without, but an expression of an intrinsic process. The laws of the lawgiver are impotent beside the laws of human nature, as to his disillusion many a lawgiver has discovered.
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A quote from Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt about the emergent nature of scientific laws, which are not imposed from an authority, but come from within nature.

03 SEP 2011 by ideonexus

 We Error in Believing What We See, and Seeing What We Bel...

Another source of fallacy is the vicious circle of illusions which consists on the one hand of believing what we see, and on the other in seeing what we believe.
Folksonomies: empiricism bias
Folksonomies: empiricism bias
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Quote from Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt.