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Bertrand Russell Philosopher, Mathematician
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"We are ... led to a somewhat vague distinction between what we may call "hard" data and "soft" data. This distinction is a matter of degree, and must not be pressed; but if not taken too seriously it may help to make the situation clear. I mean by "hard" data those which resist the solvent influence of critical reflection, and by "soft" data those which, under the operation of this process, become to our minds more or less doubtful."

Mean Science Taken
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Bertrand Russell Philosopher, Mathematician
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"Science, in its ultimate ideal, consists of a set of propositions arranged in a hierarchy, the lowest level of the hierarchy being concerned with particular facts, and the highest with some general law, governing everything in the universe. The various levels in the hierarchy have a two-fold logical connection, travelling one up, one down; the upward connection proceeds by induction, the downward by deduction."

Two Law Science
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Bertrand Russell Philosopher, Mathematician
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"There is as much difference between a collection of mentally free citizens and a community molded by modern methods of propaganda as there is between a heap of raw materials and a battleship."

Science Differences Community
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Bertrand Russell Philosopher, Mathematician
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"I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups rather than to make men happy."

Men Science Groups
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Bertrand Russell Philosopher, Mathematician
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"I conclude that, while it is true that science cannot decide questions of value, that is because they cannot be intellectually decided at all, and lie outside the realm of truth and falsehood. Whatever knowledge is attainable, must be attained by scientific methods; and what science cannot discover, mankind cannot know."

Lying Science Knowledge
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Albert Einstein Physicist
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"The supreme task of the physicist is to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built up by pure deduction. There is no logical path to these laws; only intuition, resting on sympathetic understanding of experience, can reach them."

Law Science Understanding
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Albert Einstein Physicist
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"The sceptic will say, 'It may well be true that this system of equations is reasonable from a logical standpoint, but this does not prove that it corresponds to nature.' You are right, dear sceptic. Experience alone can decide on truth."

May Science Criticism
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Albert Einstein Physicist
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"...the physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations; for, he himself knows best, and feels more surely where the shoe pinches...Physical conceptions are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world."

Mind Science Shoes
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Albert Einstein Physicist
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"But if the longing for the achievement of the goal is powerfully alive within us, then shall we not lack the strength to find the means for reaching the goal and for translating it into deeds."

Mean Religious Science
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Albert Einstein Physicist
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"Every serious scientific worker is painfully conscious of this involuntary relegation to an ever-narrowing sphere of knowledge, which threatens to deprive the investigator of his broad horizon and degrades him to the level of a mechanic."

Science Levels Horizon
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Albert Einstein Physicist
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"As to science, we may well define it for our purpose as "methodical thinking directed toward finding regulative connections between our sensual experiences"."

Thinking Religious Science
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Albert Einstein Physicist
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"While it is true that science, to the extent of its grasp of causative connections, may reach important conclusions as to the compatibility and incompatibility of goals and evaluations, the independent and fundamental definitions regarding goals and values remain beyond science's reach."

Religious Science Independent
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Albert Einstein Physicist
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"All the fifty years of conscious brooding have brought me no closer to answer the question, "What are light quanta?" Of course today every rascal thinks he knows the answer, but he is deluding himself."

Thinking Light Science
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Albert Einstein Physicist
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"[When asked "Dr. Einstein, why is it that when the mind of man has stretched so far as to discover the structure of the atom we have been unable to devise the political means to keep the atom from destroying us?"] That is simple, my friend. It is because politics is more difficult than physics."

Men Mean Science
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Albert Einstein Physicist
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"We scientists, whose tragic destination has been to help in making the methods of annihilation more gruesome and more effective, must consider it our solemn and transcendent duty to do all in our power in preventing these weapons from being used for the brutal purpose for which they were invented."

Science Purpose Weapons
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