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Rebecca Goldstein Quotes

It’s a tiresome proposition, having to take up the work of the Enlightenment all over again, but it’s happened on your watch Picture Quote #1

Philosophy is this amazing technique we’ve devised for getting reality to answer us back when we’re getting it wrong. Science itself can’t make those arguments. You actually have to rely on philosophy, on philosophy of science Picture Quote #1

Kleos is sometimes translated as acoustic renown the spreading renown you get from people talking about your exploits. It’s a bit like having a large Twitter following Picture Quote #1

We need science. We need empirical evidence. We can’t just use mathematical reasoning to deduce the nature of the world Picture Quote #1

Plato’s concern is not just an intellectual issue, but it is knitted with emotional life as well Picture Quote #1

What is it precisely, that they are doing when they are doing science. Are they refining their instruments for observation or discovering new aspects of reality? Picture Quote #1

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Children, who have so much to learn in so short a time, had involved the tendency to trust adults to instruct them in the collective knowledge of our species, and this trust confers survival value. But it also makes children vulnerable to being tricked and adults who exploit this vulnerability should be deeply ashamed Picture Quote #1

Those who share my heroes are, in the deepest sense, of my own kind Picture Quote #1

Answers? Forget answers. The spectacle is all in the questions Picture Quote #1

Having your husband at a party is like adding anchovies to a salad. I love anchovies, but you can’t taste anything else Picture Quote #1

Youth is not an essential, but rather an accidental property. Nobody is in essence young. One either ceases to be or ceases to be young Picture Quote #1

To matter... Is there any human will deeper than that?... We don’t want to live when we become convinced that we don’t, can’t, will never matter.... We no sooner discover that we are than we desperately want that which we are to matter Picture Quote #1

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And now having a child has been taken out of the sphere of biological determinism and placed instead in the domain of intentional action. Another option to consider and decide upon. And... not to choose is to choose Picture Quote #1

Math... music... starry nights... These are secular ways of achieving transcendence, of feeling lifted into a grand perspective. It’s a sense of being awed by existence that almost obliterates the self. Religious people think of it as an essentially religious experience but it’s not. It’s an essentially human experience Picture Quote #1

Philosophy is this amazing technique we’ve devised for getting reality to answer us back when we’re getting it wrong. Science itself can’t make those arguments. You actually have to rely on philosophy, on philosophy of science Picture Quote #1

It’s something that’s very often said that philosophy, as opposed to science, never makes any progress Picture Quote #1

It’s very important to remember that the philosophers were social dissidents. They were social critics. The man in the street or woman in the street did not particularly cherish what they said. Socrates was killed Picture Quote #1

I think the humanities always have to take science, our great knowledge that we get from science, into account, but then try to answer the human questions and try to make sense out of our lives, taking into account all of the scientific knowledge Picture Quote #1

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I’ve got access to your mysterious body but not your mysterious soul. Souls seem to me the loneliest possibility of all Picture Quote #1

What was tortuously secured by complex argument becomes widely shared intuition, so obvious that we forget its provenance. We don’t see it, because we see with it Picture Quote #1

In fact, it’s the very impersonality of impersonal knowledge that renders such knowledge the most ethically potent of all Picture Quote #1

Less money spent on billboards that just make us feel good about ourselves and more on soup kitchens and organized visits to the sick and dying Picture Quote #1

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It’s a tiresome proposition, having to take up the work of the Enlightenment all over again, but it’s happened on your watch. (Rebecca Goldstein Quotes) Philosophy is this amazing technique we’ve devised for getting reality to answer us back when we’re getting it wrong. Science itself can’t make those arguments. You actually have to rely on philosophy, on philosophy of science. (Rebecca Goldstein Quotes) Kleos is sometimes translated as acoustic renown the spreading renown you get from people talking about your exploits. It’s a bit like having a large Twitter following. (Rebecca Goldstein Quotes) We need science. We need empirical evidence. We can’t just use mathematical reasoning to deduce the nature of the world. (Rebecca Goldstein Quotes) Plato’s concern is not just an intellectual issue, but it is knitted with emotional life as well. (Rebecca Goldstein Quotes) What is it precisely, that they are doing when they are doing science. Are they refining their instruments for observation or discovering new aspects of reality? (Rebecca Goldstein Quotes) Children, who have so much to learn in so short a time, had involved the tendency to trust adults to instruct them in the collective knowledge of our species, and this trust confers survival value. But it also makes children vulnerable to being tricked and adults who exploit this vulnerability should be deeply ashamed. (Rebecca Goldstein Quotes) Those who share my heroes are, in the deepest sense, of my own kind (Rebecca Goldstein Quotes) Answers? Forget answers. The spectacle is all in the questions (Rebecca Goldstein Quotes) Having your husband at a party is like adding anchovies to a salad. I love anchovies, but you can’t taste anything else (Rebecca Goldstein Quotes) Youth is not an essential, but rather an accidental property. Nobody is in essence young. One either ceases to be or ceases to be young (Rebecca Goldstein Quotes) To matter... Is there any human will deeper than that?... We don’t want to live when we become convinced that we don’t, can’t, will never matter.... We no sooner discover that we are than we desperately want that which we are to matter (Rebecca Goldstein Quotes) And now having a child has been taken out of the sphere of biological determinism and placed instead in the domain of intentional action. Another option to consider and decide upon. And... not to choose is to choose (Rebecca Goldstein Quotes) Math... music... starry nights... These are secular ways of achieving transcendence, of feeling lifted into a grand perspective. It’s a sense of being awed by existence that almost obliterates the self. Religious people think of it as an essentially religious experience but it’s not. It’s an essentially human experience (Rebecca Goldstein Quotes) Philosophy is this amazing technique we’ve devised for getting reality to answer us back when we’re getting it wrong. Science itself can’t make those arguments. You actually have to rely on philosophy, on philosophy of science (Rebecca Goldstein Quotes) It’s something that’s very often said that philosophy, as opposed to science, never makes any progress (Rebecca Goldstein Quotes) It’s very important to remember that the philosophers were social dissidents. They were social critics. The man in the street or woman in the street did not particularly cherish what they said. Socrates was killed (Rebecca Goldstein Quotes) I think the humanities always have to take science, our great knowledge that we get from science, into account, but then try to answer the human questions and try to make sense out of our lives, taking into account all of the scientific knowledge (Rebecca Goldstein Quotes) I’ve got access to your mysterious body but not your mysterious soul. Souls seem to me the loneliest possibility of all (Rebecca Goldstein Quotes) What was tortuously secured by complex argument becomes widely shared intuition, so obvious that we forget its provenance. We don’t see it, because we see with it (Rebecca Goldstein Quotes) In fact, it’s the very impersonality of impersonal knowledge that renders such knowledge the most ethically potent of all (Rebecca Goldstein Quotes) Less money spent on billboards that just make us feel good about ourselves and more on soup kitchens and organized visits to the sick and dying (Rebecca Goldstein Quotes)