Nietzsche on Newspapers and Prayer – Allan Bloom
“Nietzsche said the newspaper had replaced the prayer in the life of the modern bourgeois , meaning that the busy, the cheap, the ephemeral, had usurped all that remained of the eternal in his daily life.”
Allan Bloom
Thomas Kuhn on Paradigm Choice and Science
“As in political revolutions, so in paradigm choice-there is no standard higher than the assent of the relevant community… this issue of paradigm choice can never be unequivocally settled by logic and experiment alone.”
Thomas Kuhn
Motivational Quote About Goals and Choices by Ben Carson
“You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going to happen in your life. Do everything you can – prepare, pray and achieve – to make it happen.”
Ben Carson
Allan Bloom Quote on Language and World Perception
“A new language always reflects a new point of view, and the gradual unconscious popularization of new words, or of old words used in new ways, is a sure sign of a profound change in people’s articulation of the world.”
Allan Bloom
Nikola Tesla Quote About Wireless Communication
“It will soon be possible to transmit wireless messages around the world so simply that any individual can carry and operate his own apparatus.”
Nikola Tesla
Allan Bloom on Knowledge and Ignorance
“Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?”
Allan Bloom
“You Need a Story” – Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“You need a story to displace a story.”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Social Science and Humanities – Quote by Allan Bloom
“Social science and humanities … have a mutual contempt for one another, the former looking down on the latter as unscientific, the latter regarding the former as philistine. … The difference comes down to the fact that social science really wants to be predictive, meaning that man is predictable, while the humanities say that he is not.”
Allan Bloom
Thomas Kuhn on Scientific Revolutions and Knowledge
“Its assimilation requires the reconstruction of prior theory and re-evaluation of prior fact, an intrinsically revolutionary process that is seldom completed a single man and never overnight”
Thomas Kuhn
Clarity and Simplicity – Quote by Karl Popper
“If you can’t say it simply and clearly, keep quiet, and keep working on it till you can.”
Karl Popper