 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1914 - 926 pagina’s
...debates, however, a critical examination of scientific foundations generallv is going on ; and a kind of philosophic scepticism is in the ascendant, resulting...pressed beyond the positive region of usefulness into a field of dogmatic negation and philosophising, it becomes also its weakness. For the nature of man... | |
 | American Society for Psychical Research - 1913 - 800 pagina’s
...debates, however, a critical examination of scientific foundations generally is going on; and a kind of philosophic scepticism is in the ascendant, resulting...pressed beyond the positive region of usefulness into a field of dogmatic negation and philosophising, it becomes also its weakness. For the nature of man... | |
 | American Society for Psychical Research - 1913 - 748 pagina’s
...resulting in a mistrust of purely inThe British Association for the Advancement of Science. 673 tellectual processes and in a recognition of the limited scope...pressed beyond the positive region of usefulness into a field of dogmatic negation and philosophising, it becomes also its •weakness. For the nature of man... | |
 | Sir Oliver Lodge - 1914 - 158 pagina’s
...debates, however, a critical examination of scientific foundations generally is going on; and a kind of philosophic scepticism is in the ascendant, resulting...pressed beyond the positive region of usefulness into a field of dogmatic negation and philosophising, it becomes also its weakness. For the nature of man... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1914 - 1032 pagina’s
...debates, however, a critical examination of scientific foundations generally is going on ; and a kind of philosophic scepticism is in the ascendant, resulting...attitude of science is its strength ; but, if pressed beyond1 the positive region of usefulness into a field of dogmatic negation and philosophising, it... | |
 | Stanley Alfred Mellor - 1914 - 274 pagina’s
...things which, for other ways of looking at the world, are supremely important. It has been said that ' the kernel of the scientific outlook is the refusal...affording a key to the understanding of the world.' We must never, if we would be truly scientific, hold a conclusion to be true simply because we wish... | |
 | Claude Charles H. Williamson - 1917 - 224 pagina’s
...opposed Mr. Bertrand Russell's dictum : " The kernel of the scientific outlook is the refusal to regardcm own desires, tastes, and interests as affording a key to the understanding of the world." " Science," said Mr. Balfour at the National Physical Laboratory, " depends on measurement, and things... | |
 | Bertrand Russell - 1918 - 232 pagina’s
...thing so simple, so obvious, so seemingly trivial, that the mention of it may almost excite derision. The kernel of the scientific outlook is the refusal...affording a key to the understanding of the world. Stated thus baldly, this may seem no more than a trite truism. But to remember it consistently in matters... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne, Waldo Ralph Browne, Scofield Thayer - 1918 - 568 pagina’s
...higher mathematics as a classicist from the niceties of Attic prose, defines the scientific outlook as the refusal to regard our own desires, tastes, and interests as affording any key to the understanding of the world. Yet what is the final objection brought against the modernist... | |
 | John Clarke - 1919 - 424 pagina’s
...of hope ; it engenders a love of accuracy and the habit of trying to get at the facts. Above all " the kernel of the scientific outlook is the refusal...affording a key to the understanding of the world " (Bertrand Russell, The Place of Science in a Liberal Education, in Mysticism and Logic and other... | |
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The kernel of the scientific outlook is the refusal to regard our own desires, tastes, and interests as affording a key to the understanding of the world. 
