30 JAN 2015 by ideonexus
The Big and the Little
And Mallow laughed joyously, "You've missed, Sutt, missed as badly as the
Commdor himself. You've missed everything, and understood nothing. Look,
man, the Empire can replace nothing. The Empire has always been a realm of
colossal resources. They've calculated everything in planets, in stellar
systems, in whole sectors of the Galaxy. Their generators are gigantic
because they thought in gigantic fashion.
"But we, – we , our little Foundation, our single world almost with...19 APR 2013 by ideonexus
Outline of the Natural Sciences Pt. I
The heavens are enriched for the man of science with new stars, and he applies his knowledge to determine and foretel with accuracy their positions and movements. Natural philosophy, gradually delivered from the vague explanations of Descartes, in the same manner as it before was disembarrassed from the absurdities of the schools, is now nothing more than the art of interrogating nature by experiment, for the parpose of afterwards deducing more general facts by computation.
The weight of the...From Condorcet's Ninth Epoch. A survey of the world of science and a call for the need for the different sciences to find points where they touch in order to strengthen.
29 MAR 2013 by ideonexus
Belief VS Evidence
Our own view of what is and is not
possible in reality affects how we
perceive identical evidence. But that view
shifts with time, and thus, evidence that
might at one point seem meaningless can
come to hold a great deal of meaning.
Think of how many ideas seemed
outlandish when first put forward, seemed
so impossible that they couldn’t be true:
the earth being round; the earth going
around the sun; the universe being made
up almost entirely of something that we
can’t see, dark matter and...Many great minds have been taken in by supernatural ideas.
24 JAN 2012 by ideonexus
Theoretical Physics is Philosophy
I have tried to read philosophers of all ages and have found many illuminating ideas but no steady progress toward deeper knowledge and understanding. Science, however, gives me the feeling of steady progress: I am convinced that theoretical physics is actual philosophy. It has revolutionized fundamental concepts, e.g., about space and time (relativity), about causality (quantum theory), and about substance and matter (atomistics), and it has taught us new methods of thinking (complementarity...Folksonomies: physics philosophy
Folksonomies: physics philosophy
It has made more progress and provided more illumination that traditional philosophy.