QUOTE A DAY - Nov. 22, 2011
Greetings fellow quote lovers:Today's theme is about science and technology. Each quote gave me a lot of food for thought. Have a very Happy Thanksgiving!
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Email Me*---- Quotes For The Week ----*Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
--Kant
Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis; you can never prove it. No matter how many times the results of experiments agree with some theory, you can never be sure that the next time the result will not contradict the theory. On the other hand, you can disprove a theory by finding even a single observation that disagrees with the predictions of the theory.
--Stephen Hawking
There is surely something right in the idea that a science can succeed only if it can fail.
--Phillip Kitcher, Philosopher of Science
**--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---**Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
See at the bottom for the answer*---- More Quotes for the Week ----*A theory is a good theory if it satisfies two requirements: It must accurately describe a large class of observations on the basis of a model that contains only a few arbitrary elements, and it must make definite predictions about the results of future observations.
--Stephen Hawking
Anyone who has studied the history of technology knows that technological change is always a Faustian bargain: Technology giveth and technology taketh away, and not always in equal measure.
A new technology sometimes creates more than it destroys. Sometimes, it destroys more than it creates. But it is never one-sided. The invention of the printing press is an excellent example. Printing fostered the modern idea of individuality but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and social integration. Printing created prose but made poetry into an exotic and elitist form of expression. Printing made modern science possible but transformed religious sensibility into an exercise in superstition. Printing assisted in the growth of the nation-state but, in so doing, made patriotism into a sordid if not a murderous emotion.
--Neil Postman
MYSTERY QUOTE AND ANSWER - DID YOU GUESS CORRECTLY?Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
MYSTERY ANSWER: William James
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