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Natural Science
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The cost of scientific advance is the humbling recognition that reality was not constructed to be easily grasped by the human mind. This is the cardinal tenet of scientific understanding: Our species and its ways of thinking are a product of evolution, not the purpose of evolution.
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― Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
― Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
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When it is really natural science that speaks, we listen willingly and as disciples. But the language of the natural scientists is not always that of natural science itself, and is assuredly not so when they speak of "natural philosophy" and the "theory of knowledge of natural science.
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― Ideas: General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology
― Ideas: General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology
