When there are so few constructive, creative proposals, it is not only because they are ruled out by “value-free science” (which of course never existed), but because it is simply more difficult.
Schlagwort: Wissenschaft
Academivity.
Du sollst denken und wissen.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.
Galileo Galilei: Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina (1615)
Zucknographriegismus.
“I hadn’t known that,” I said. “I always tend to assume there’s an infinite amount of money out there.” “There might as well be,” Arsibalt said, “but most of it gets spent on pornography, sugar water, and bombs. There is only so much that can be scraped together for particle accelerators.”
Anathem by Neal Stephenson
Knowbligations.
Let us support each other, and support others, in the struggle to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live by the truth.