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Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
What I conclude is that religion has nothing to do with experience or reason but with deep and irrational needs
What I conclude is that religion has nothing to do with experience or reason but with deep and irrational needs
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and read more
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology
Deep experience is never peaceful.
Deep experience is never peaceful.
Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired.
Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired.
All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and
childlike--and yet it is the most precious thing we have.
All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and
childlike--and yet it is the most precious thing we have.
Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.
Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of
empirical facts by logical deduction from read more
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of
empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of
hypotheses or axioms.