Quote by Rupert Sheldrake on Science Delusion and Reality
“The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle, leaving only the details to be filled in.”
Rupert Sheldrake
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Ludwig von Mises Quote on Freedom and Public Opinion
“The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.”
Ludwig von Mises
William Blum Quote on Polling Critique and War
“The questions they ask usually in the polls is: do you support the President’s attempt to overthrow the government of Saddam Hussein? … If you ask a question like: do you support the dropping of powerful explosives upon the heads of totally innocent men, women and children, demolishing their homes and their schools and their hospitals, are you in favour of that? That would change the answers, I think, quite a bit.”
William Blum
Liberty is always freedom from the government – Ludwig von Mises
“Liberty is always freedom from the government.”
Ludwig von Mises
Hans-Hermann Hoppe Quote on the State and Its Citizens
“The state operates in a legal vacuum. There exists no contract between the state and its citizens.”
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Quote by Hans-Hermann Hoppe on States and Mass Death in the 20th Century
“It is states that are responsible for the deaths of hundreds of millions of people and immeasurable destruction in the 20th century alone. Compared to that, the victims of private crimes are almost negligible.”
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Ludwig von Mises Quote on State and Violence
“It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action. Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen. The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning. Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.”
Ludwig von Mises
Stella McCartney on Animal-Free Luxury Fashion
“I think the moment that I’m very proud of is building a business without using animals. And, hopefully, changing people’s perception of how you can do luxury fashion.”
Stella McCartney
Thomas Kuhn on New Paradigms and Scientific Change
“Individuals who break through by inventing a new paradigm are almost always either very young men or very new to the field whose paradigm they change. These are the men who, being little committed by prior practice to the traditional rules of normal science, are particularly likely to see that those rules no longer define a playable game and conceive another set that can replace them.”
Thomas Kuhn
Thomas Kuhn on Science and Puzzle-Solving
“Under normal conditions the research scientist is not an innovator but a solver of puzzles, and the puzzles upon which he concentrates are just those which he believes can be both stated and solved within the existing scientific tradition.”
Thomas Kuhn