11 JUN 2012 by ideonexus
Science, Not Knowledge, is Power
A science is not mere knowledge, it is knowledge which has undergone a process of intellectual digestion. It is the grasp of many things brought together in one, and hence is its power; for, properly speaking, it is Science that is power, not Knowledge..,Science is knowledge digested.
10 JUN 2011 by ideonexus
Non-Anthropocentricm as a Virtue
Anthropocentrism isn’t just a faulty value system, but also a faulty way of understanding the world. Modern science has shown this, displacing human beings from the center of the universe, opening up immense vistas of space and time, telling a story of life in which chance, not destiny, has raised an unusual primate to dominance for a short time on a tiny planet in one insignificant corner of the universe. We know this, of course. But our daily experience tends to contradict it, as we walk th...Science displaced humans as the center of the Universe, and as a result, we can see reality more clearly.