Neil deGrasse Tyson on Truth: Why You Should Question Your Beliefs!
“If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it’s not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Bertrand Russell Quotes: Why Mental Freedom in Education Matters
0 Comments/in Bertrand Russell“The conviction that it is important to believe this or that, even if a free inquiry would not support the belief, is one which is common to almost all religions and which inspires all systems of state education…A habit of basing convictions upon evidence, and of giving to them only that degree of certainty which the evidence warrants, would, if it became general, cure most of the ills from which the world is suffering. But at present, in most countries, education aims at preventing the growth of such a habit, and men who refuse to profess belief in some system of unfounded dogmas are not considered suitable as teachers of the young…
The world that I should wish to see would be one freed from the virulence of group hostilities and capable of realizing that happiness for all is to be derived rather from cooperation than from strife. I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than at imprisoning the minds of the young in a rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them through life against the shafts of impartial evidence. The world needs open hearts and open minds, and it is not through rigid systems, whether old or new, that these can be derived.”
Bertrand Russell
Rupert Sheldrake on Scientism: The Danger of Dogmatic Belief in Science
0 Comments/in Rupert Sheldrake“”scientism is where people turn science into a kind of religion. It becomes a kind of dogmatic belief system. The irony is that a lot of people think that religion is dogmatic and science is free-thinking, but actually, in my experience, some of the most dogmatic people I know are people who’ve made science into a kind of religion. We still have flat earthers, we have people that don’t believe in vaccinations, and what do we do about it?””
Rupert Sheldrake
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote: Courage for Truth Against Worldwide Delirium
0 Comments/in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe“It may be boldly asked where can the man be found, possessing the extraordinary gifts of Newton, who could suffer himself to be deluded by such a hocus-pocus, if he had not in the first instance willfully deceived himself? Only those who know the strength of self-deception, and the extent to which it sometimes trenches on dishonesty, are in a condition to explain the conduct of Newton and of Newton’s school. To support his unnatural theory Newton heaps fiction upon fiction, seeking to dazzle where he cannot convince. In whatever way or manner may have occurred this business, I must still say that I curse this modern theory of Cosmogony, and hope that perchance there may appear, in due time, some young scientist of genius, who will pick up courage enough to upset this universally disseminated delirium of lunatics.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Sir Fred Hoyle Quote – How Paradigms Block Science Today!
0 Comments/in Fred Hoyle“Science today is locked into paradigms. Every avenue is blocked by beliefs that are wrong, and if you try to get anything published by a journal today, you will run against a paradigm and the editors will turn it down.”
Sir Fred Hoyle
Sir Fred Hoyle Quote: Why No Theory Is Absolutely Right or Wrong
0 Comments/in Fred Hoyle“Today we cannot say that the Copernican theory is ‘right’ and the Ptolemaic theory ‘wrong’ in any meaningful physical sense.”
Sir Fred Hoyle
Fred Hoyle Quote on Perspective in the Solar System – Inspirational Insights!
0 Comments/in Fred Hoyle“we can take either the Earth or the Sun, or any other point for that matter, as the center of the solar system.”
Fred Hoyle
Albert Einstein Quote: The Truth About Science and Perspective
0 Comments/in Albert Einstein“”The struggle, so violent in the early days of science, between the views of Ptolemy and Copernicus would then be quite meaningless. Either CS [coordinate system] could be used with equal justification. The two sentences, “the Sun is at rest and the Earth moves,” or “the Sun moves and the Earth is at rest,” would simply mean two different conventions concerning two different CS.””
Albert Einstein
Anita Hofmann on the True Meaning of Education and Citizenship – Discover Now!
0 Comments/in Anita Hofmann“This is about: What is actually best for children and young people? And how do they get their education and how do they become citizens? Because that is also the goal of our schooling, that I am an educated person who can also fulfill my civic duties and for that I need appropriate behavior and I learn that not only explicitly through knowledge, but also implicitly by practicing a state on a small scale, namely at school.”
Anita Hofmann