Science Philosophy Quotes

“Geçtiğimiz yüzyıllarda biliminsanları Tanrı'nın varlığına dair hiçbir deneysel kanıt bulamazken, şimşekler, yağmur ve hayatın başlangıcına dair detaylı açıklamalar konusunda hayli gelişme kaydettiler. Gelinen noktada felsefenin birkaç alt dalı dışında, bağımsız değerlendirmeye tabi hiçbir bilimsel yayın Tanrı'nın varlığını ciddiye almıyor.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow

“Without the withering criticism by nominalism, medieval Christian philosophy and theology would not have relinquished their claim to the role of knowledge in discovering the nature of things in light of higher principles; instead, it caused them to leave the field of battle without any defense before the onslaught of secularism, rationalism, and empiricism, which were, as a result, able to gain a remarkably easy victory.”
― Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Islam in the Modern World: Challenged by the West, Threatened by Fundamentalism, Keeping Faith with Tradition

“The carcasses were covered by a blanket of handsome orange-yellow butterflies, flexing their wings as they fed on the meat. I reflected sadly that natural history often deals harshly with our romantic illusions about wild life. The most brilliantly beautiful butterflies of the tropical rain forest do not fly in search of appropriately gorgeous blossoms, but instead seek a meal from carrion or dung.”
― David Attenborough, Zoo Quest for a Dragon Including the Quest for the Paradise Birds

“The men were working in a leisurely way, stopping frequently to rest or to give their full attention to the chorus that everyone was singing. I asked Turnim-talk how long it took to complete one axe.
"Some-fella time, t'ree fella moon," he replied. "Some-fella time, six-fella moon."
If this were so, it was only because the men approached their work in such an unhurried spirit for, from what we had seen, I felt sure that if a man were prepared to work hard every day he could finish one axe in two or three weeks. But such ridiculous single-minded application to a task is largely a Western characteristic; these people worked only when they felt inclined to do so.”
― David Attenborough, Zoo Quest for a Dragon Including the Quest for the Paradise Birds

“The moment you treat math as an abstraction, as unreal, as manmade, as a branch of logic, as a technical game, as a bunch of axioms, as some mere formalism, you are lost. Math, ontologically, is energy, and the study of math is the study of the existence, relations, interactions and symmetries of energy. That’s exactly why math can replace science wholesale. Anyone who approaches math as anything other than noumenal, ontological energy – energy in itself – will never get anywhere with relating math to
reality.”
― Mike Hockney, Gödel Versus Wittgenstein

“An issue with current data science methodologies is that the impact of contextual awareness is underestimated since the problem is much more complex. At times we incorrectly equate correlation with causation based on incomplete data or lack of understanding sensitive dependencies between data sets. - Tom Golway”
― Tom Golway

“There is very little of what we know of what we acknowledge ...and there is very little of what we acknowledge of our existence.”
― Abushama Khan