— Erwin Schrödinger Austrian physicist 1887 - 1961
As quoted in Schrödinger: Life and Thought (1989) by Walter Moore
„Kant … discovered “the scandal of reason,” that is the fact that our mind is not capable of certain and verifiable knowledge regarding matters and questions that it nevertheless cannot help thinking about.“
— Hannah Arendt, buch The Life of the Mind
Quelle: The Life of the Mind (1971/1978), p. 14.
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— Claude Adrien Helvétius French philosopher 1715 - 1771
La plupart des évènements ont des causes aussi petites. Nous les ignorons, parce que la plupart des historiens les ont ignorées eux-mêmes, ou parce qu’ils n’ont pas eu d’yeux pour les appercevoir. Il est vrai qu’à cet égard l’esprit peut réparer leurs omissions : la connoissance de certains principes supplée facilement à la connoissance de certains faits.
Essay III, Chapter I
De l'esprit or, Essays on the Mind, and Its Several Faculties (1758)
— J. B. Bury Irish historian and freethinker 1861 - 1927
Introduction<!-- pp. 3-4 -->
The Idea of Progress: An Inquiry Into Its Origin and Growth (1921)
Kontext: Science has been advancing without interruption during the last three of four hundred years; every new discovery has led to new problems and new methods of solution, and opened up new fields for exploration. Hitherto men of science have not been compelled to halt, they have always found ways to advance further. But what assurance have we that they will not come up against impassable barriers?... Take biology or astronomy. How can we be sure that some day progress may not come to a dead pause, not because knowledge is exhausted, but because our resources for investigation are exhausted... It is an assumption, which cannot be verified, that we shall not reach a point in our knowledge of nature beyond which the human intellect is unqualified to pass.
— Hans Reichenbach American philosopher 1891 - 1953
The Philosophy of Space and Time (1928, tr. 1957)
— C.G. Jung, buch Memories, Dreams, Reflections
Quelle: Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1963), pp.351 f.
— Isaac Asimov American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction and popular … 1920 - 1992
"Alas, All Human" in Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1979
General sources
— Paul Cilliers South African philosopher 1956 - 2011
Paul Cilliers (2005: 263) as quoted in: Vikki Bell (2007) Culture and Performance: The Challenge of Ethics, Politics and Feminist Theory. p. 8
— Friedrich Engels German social scientist, author, political theorist, and philosopher 1820 - 1895
Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1886/ludwig-feuerbach/ch04.htm (1886)
„Philosophy is an activity: it is a way of thinking about certain sorts of question.“
— Nigel Warburton British author and lecturer 1962
Philosophy : the basics (Fifth Edition, 2013), Introduction
— William Kingdon Clifford English mathematician and philosopher 1845 - 1879
The Ethics of Belief (1877), The Weight Of Authority
Kontext: We have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless there are good grounds for believing that some one person at least has the means of knowing what is true, and is speaking the truth so far as he knows it. However many nations and generations of men are brought into the witness-box they cannot testify to anything which they do not know. Every man who has accepted the statement from somebody else, without himself testing and verifying it, is out of court; his word is worth nothing at all. And when we get back at last to the true birth and beginning of the statement, two serious questions must be disposed of in regard to him who first made it: was he mistaken in thinking that he knew about this matter, or was he lying?
„Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.“
— Aristotle, buch Posterior Analytics
I. 13, 78a.22
Posterior Analytics
— Gottlob Frege, Über Sinn und Bedeutung
The discovery that the rising sun is not new every morning, but always the same, was one of the most fertile astronomical discoveries. Even to-day the identification of a small planet or a comet is not always a matter of course. Now if we were to regard equality as a relation between that which the names 'a' and 'b' designate, it would seem that a = b could not differ from a = a (i.e. provided a = b is true). A relation would thereby be expressed of a thing to itself, and indeed one in which each thing stands to itself but to no other thing.
As cited in: M. Fitting, Richard L. Mendelsoh (1999), First-Order Modal Logic, p. 142. They called this Frege's Puzzle.
Über Sinn und Bedeutung, 1892
— Taraneh Javanbakht Iranian scientist, faculty, poet, translator, playwright and writer 1974
the necessary and sufficient conditions for rational knowledge
Quelle: Great Islamic Encyclopedia website, 2016 https://www.cgie.org.ir/fa/news/154958
— José Rizal Filipino writer, ophthalmologist, polyglot and nationalist 1861 - 1896
Letter to Blumentritt (13 April 1887)
— Abraham Lincoln 16th President of the United States 1809 - 1865
1860s, Allow the humblest man an equal chance (1860)
— Bertrand Russell, buch Religion and Science
Religion and Science (1935), Ch. IX: Science of Ethics.
1930s
Variante: "What science cannot tell us, mankind cannot know." (Attributed to Russell in Ted Peters' Cosmos As Creation: Theology and Science in Consonance [1989], p. 14, with a note that it was "told [to] a BBC audience [earlier this century]").
— Claude Bernard French physiologist 1813 - 1878
Introduction à l'Étude de la Médecine Expérimentale (1865)
— Edward S. Herman American journalist 1925 - 2017
Quelle: After the Cataclysm: Postwar Indochina and the Reconstruction of Imperial Ideology, with Noam Chomsky, 1979, p. 293.
