The American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, "Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of our science.... The French philosopher Claude Lévi-Strauss once said, "The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions....
Science can be said to be the result of ancient Greek philosophers who paved the way for exploring and understanding the natural world. ... This would give rise to many more significant ideas by many other great philosophers, all in a search to explain the laws of this natural world. ... "(Page 13) The idea that the senses could not be trusted and true knowledge could only be proven through logic is a theme that follows many philosophers for ages to come. ...
For the sake of an impending argument, the French mathematician and philosopher René Descartes announced that "there is no difference between the machines built by artisans and the diverse bodies that nature alone composes."" ... (Shapin 32) Galileo knew that in order to go beyond where Aristotelian natural philosophers have reached, he needed an instrument that could provide him with the visual information and the means of verification. ...
Galileo was one of the most significant contributors to the scientific revolution. Galileo recognized that there were many theoretical problems when it came to physical science. In fact, Galileo's interpretations were so contrary to popular theories that he was sometimes laughed at and disrespected ...
The way Plato's theoretical human conditioning works is that human beings represent a natural order whereas the guardians (supreme philosophers) are at the top of the order and everyone else in the state is below them taking heed to their guidance and wisdom. ... Each philosopher has their own unique ideas of natural human conditioning, but each realize that a government is necessary despite their governments being used to serve different purposes. ...
FRANCIS BACON "Of Studies" (1625) Francis Bacon was a philosopher and a politician who came from a noble family, and would also become nephew by marriage to William Cecil, 1st Minister of Queen Elizabeth then. ... It might be said that Bacon was a philosopher that changed his society but he was not the only one: Occam, Bacon, Locke, Hume, all these empiricists and many more people, like painters, writers, etc. help and drove this revolution brought in part by the Renaissance, made this possible. ...
In the past, animal research had a vital role in many scientific advancements and helps to answer unknown scientific questions. People are able to have a better quality of life due to scientific advancements that are made possible by animal research. Animal research creates controversy between peopl...
From the perspective of the emerging Western philosophers and human scientists; that is, humans not belonging to their known European culture. ... A growing contemplation that humans might be alike as a biological species, and that it was culture that perhaps created our differences, gave way to a freedom to explore that these 'Others' may be capable of the same moral fabric and practice lives with values that contributed to a very slow growth of acceptance for some philosophers and scientist. ...
Although different models of this relationship were supported by different philosophers, theologians, scientists, and others, and they are co-existing with each other, no one really has the ability to prove which model is more accurate and superior. ...
Apparent Connections Amidst Science, Politics, and Religion Within today's society science is an entity almost entirely separate from religion and politics, yet history paints a different picture. During 17th and 18th century Europe, the spread of ideas and the inspiration to perform science ...
Frankenstein listens in on Professor Waldman's lecture over philosophy, and he explains, "But these philosophers, whose hands seem only made to dabble in dirt, and their eyes to pour over the microscope or crucible, have indeed performed miracles They have acquired new and almost unlimited powers; they can command the thunders of heaven, mimic the earthquake, and even mock the Invisible world with its own shadows....
During the 14th and 15th century, Europe was blessed with some of the greatest minds in history. Original thinkers such as Galileo Galilei, Martin Luther, and Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni lead inspirational paths forever changing humanity. While their crafts were none like the other, t...
This is an important ethical issue to Americans and world citizens that involves questions of duty, consequences, and moral reconstruction and was highly recognized by many famous philosophers such as Immanuel Kant, John Dewey, Karl Marx, and Augustine. ...
"The human skin is an artificial boundary: the world wanders into it, and the self wanders out of it, traffic is two-way and constant" - Bernard Wolfe, 1963 Since the conception of man, philosophers and historians the world over have struggled to define what it means to be human. ...
When you strip away all the layers that have been influenced by society, family, friends and self-interests, what do we find at the core of human nature? That is, are we naturally inclined to act cooperatively towards other people or do we only act in our self-interests, even if that includes underm...
"The world is enigmatical, every thing said and every thing known and done, and must not be taken literally, but genially. We must be at the top of our condition to understand any thing rightly." - Ralph Waldo Emerson A Condensation of Its Context Toward the end of his notebook, "Naturalist," Ralph Waldo Emerson entered sentence (dated 1853) that marks a symbolic vision of nature familiar to his readers and, in more recent years, of concern to his ecologically minded critics: "He is the richest who has most use for nature as raw material of tropes and symbols with which to describe his life....
