Universal Quotes (4)
If science could get rid of consciousness, it would have disposed of the only stumbling block to its universal application.
'Reply to Francis V. Raab', The Philosophy of Brand Blanshard (1980) 807.
The El Nino phenomenon, the geophysicists' equivalent of the universal solvent.
'Great Greenhouse in the Sky?', Nature (1983), 306, 221.
The only universal attribute of scientific statements resides in their potential fallibility. If a claim cannot be disproven, it does not belong to the enterprise of science.
Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History (1998), 155.
What is the universal?
The single case.
What is the particular?
Millions of cases.
The single case.
What is the particular?
Millions of cases.
Jeremy Naydler (ed.), Goethe On Science: An Anthology of Goethe's Scientific Writings (1996), 92.