Scientism Quotes:

Our aristocracy, unlike that of Europe, is open to all comers.

- Josiah Strong

source: Josiah Strong (1891). “Our Country, Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis”

topic: Europe, Aristocracy, Scientism

Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena.

- Stanislav Grof

topic: Unbiased, Investigation, Scientism

When women work together, it's a bond unlike any other.

- Victoria Principal

topic: Together, Working Together, Scientism

Science, at its core, is simply a method of practical logic that tests hypotheses against experience. Scientism, by contrast, is the worldview and value system that insists that the questions the scientific method can answer are the most important questions human beings can ask, and that the picture of the world yielded by science is a better approximation to reality than any other.

- John Michael Greer

topic: Reality, Important, Answers, Scientism, Approximation

The public has a distorted view of science because children are taught in school that science is a collection of firmly established truths. In fact, science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries.

- Freeman Dyson

source: "How We Know". Freeman Dyson's review of James Gleick's book "The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood" (2011), www.nybooks.com. March 10, 2011.

topic: Children, School, Views, Scientism

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.

- Thomas Szasz

topic: Strong, Mistake, Men, Medical Doctor, Scientism

We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two gives us superstition plus scientism -- a Mongoloid metaphysic.

- Edward Abbey

source: Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.13, RosettaBooks

topic: Two, Giving, Superstitions, Scientism

We ask ourselves all kinds of questions, such as why does a peacock have such beautiful feathers, and we may answer that he needs the feathers to impress a female peacock, but then we ask ourselves, and why is there a peacock? And then we ask, why is there anything living? And then we ask, why is there anything at all? And if you tell some advocate of scientism that the answer is a secret, he will go white hot and write a book. But it is a secret. And the experience of living with the secret and thinking about it is in itself a kind of faith.

- Vaclav Havel

topic: Beautiful, Book, Writing, Scientism, Peacock

It is this claim to a monopoly of meaning, rather than any special scientific doctrine, that makes science and religion look like competitors today. Scientism emerged not as the conclusion of scientific argument but as a chosen element in a worldview - a vision that attracted people by its contrast with what went before - which is, of course, how people very often do make such decisions, even ones that they afterwards call scientific.

- Mary Midgley

topic: People, Decision, Vision, Scientism

Insofar as he makes use of his healthy senses, man himself is the best and most exact scientific instrument possible. The greatest misfortune of modern physics is that its experiments have been set apart from man, as it were, physics refuses to recognize nature in anything not shown by artificial instruments, and even uses this as a measure of its accomplishments.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Science, Men, Healthy, Scientism, Modern Physics

I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: As quoted by William Rees-Mogg in "The Times", April 4, 2005.

topic: God, Faith, Christian, Anti Religious, Scientism

I never felt a feeling that I knew or could know to be unlike the feelings of other people. I never consciously thought, except after patterns that the world or my fellows set for me.

- Josiah Royce

topic: People, Feelings, World, Scientism

Positivism stands or falls with the principle of scientism, that is that the meaning of knowledge is defined by what the sciences do and can thus be adequately explicated through the methodological analysis of scientific procedures.

- Jurgen Habermas

topic: Fall, Knowledge, Principles, Scientism, Positivism

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

- Francis Bacon

topic: Atheist, Philosophy, Men, Scientism, Phylosophy

An enlightened trust in the sovereignty of human reason can be every bit as magical as the exploits of Merlin, and a faith in our capacity for limitless self-improvement just as much a wide-eyed superstition as a faith in leprechauns.

- Terry Eagleton

topic: Self, Superstitions, Improvement, Scientism, Leprechaun

Education is the most important thing you can have.

- Torrey Smith

topic: Important, Scientism, Allocation

Protestant Christianity, whether in its liberal or conservative garb, finds itself waking up each morning in bed with a deteriorating modern culture, between sheets with a raunchy sexual reductionism, despairing scientism, morally normless cultural relativism, and self-assertive individualism. We remain resident aliens, OF the world but not profoundly in it, dining at the banquet table of waning modernity without a whisper of table grace. We all wear biblical name tags (Joseph, David, and Sarah), but have forgotten what our Christian names mean.

- Thomas Oden

topic: Christian, Morning, Mean, Scientism, Modern Culture

Science and religion...are friends, not foes, in the common quest for knowledge. Some people may find this surprising, for there's a feeling throughout our society that religious belief is outmoded, or downright impossible, in a scientific age. I don't agree. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that if people in this so-called 'scientific age' knew a bit more about science than many of them actually do, they'd find it easier to share my views.

- John Polkinghorne

topic: Religious, Views, People, Hungry For Knowledge, Scientism

An important tradition within westren philosophy believes in the primacy of natural science as a guide to truth. This is sometimes met with the charge that such an allegiance amounts to scientism - the view that the only things that really exist are those recognized by fundamental physical theory, and that the only forms of genuine knowledge are scientific ones.

- J. J. C. Smart

source: J. J. C. Smart, J. J. Haldane (2008). “Atheism and Theism”, p.82, John Wiley & Sons

topic: Philosophy, Believe, Views, Scientism, Primacy

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

- Marcus Aurelius

topic: Inspirational, Revenge, Hatred, Scientism, Best Revenge

Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight.

- Jalal Talabani

topic: Fighting, Forgiving, Democracy, Scientism

There was a long history of speculation that in quantum gravity, unlike Einstein's classical theory, it might be possible for the topology of spacetime to change.

- Edward Witten

topic: Long, Might, Gravity, Spacetime, Scientism

The Greeks distinguished between good and bad behavior, language that enhanced or diminished persons. Being intoxicated with scientism, we fail to recognize that the seemingly technical terms used to identify psychiatric illnesses and interventions are simply dyphemisms and euphemisms.

- Thomas Szasz

source: "The Untamed Tongue: A Dissenting Dictionary". Book by Thomas Szasz, 1990.

topic: Greek, Language, Failing, Scientism, Bad Behavior

Pocahontas was the reason the Virginia colony didn't disappear, unlike some earlier attempts

- Brooks Robinson

topic: Virginia, Reason, Disappear, Scientism, Colony

Being a philosophical naturalist does not mean that one thinks that science can provide all of the answers. That is scientism and that is wrong. I don't think a billion buckets of science could speak to the problems raised by the Tea Party. Being a philosophical naturalist does not mean that one thinks that the only truths are those of science. I think the claim just made in the last sentence is true but I don't think it is a claim of science. It means that you use science where you can and you respect and try to emulate its standards.

- Michael Ruse

topic: Philosophical, Party, Mean, Scientism

It was a perfectly average well- adjusted childhood, not a bit unlike that of millions of other individuals.

- DeForest Kelley

topic: Average, Childhood, Individual, Scientism

I have to play as much of the game as I allow myself to get the music heard. But it's not unlike the rest of the world, so I'm not as up in arms about it as I could be.

- Kristin Hersh

topic: Games, Play, World, Scientism

Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are closer to the walls.

- Barbara Amiel

topic: Wall, Attention, World, Scientism, World Domination

I loved the gentlemanly way they treated each other. It was unlike anything I was used to. I started helping them strike the set and, at 11, began taking acting classes privately.

- Jeffrey Tambor

topic: Class, Acting, Way, Scientism, Gentlemanly

The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.

- Daniel Dennett

source: "Daniel Dennett: Darwin's Dangerous Idea (1995)". Interview with Hari Kunzru, www.harikunzru.com. December 17, 2008.

topic: Problem, Ethical, Mathematics, Scientism

It is always more fun to play a bad guy than to be yourself as you can create a character unlike your own and be someone you are not for a change.

- Richard Kiel

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Being Yourself, Fun, Character, Scientism

Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.

- Daniel Kahikina Akaka

topic: Country, Cities, Disaster, Scientism, Honolulu

It's actually not unlike Google at that stage of development. They had an up-and-running site. It wasn't losing very much money, it wasn't making very much money, but it was growing.

- John Doerr

topic: Running, Google, Development, Scientism, Stages Of Development

Turkey, unlike chicken, has very elegant characteristics. It has more of a cache than chicken. Turkey is a delicacy, so it should be presented in such a way.

- Todd English

topic: Turkeys, Delicacy, Way, Scientism, Cache

The space shuttle has been a fantastic vehicle. It is unlike any other thing that we've ever built. Its capabilities have carried several hundred people into space.

- Robert Crippen

source: Interview with George Diller, www.nasa.gov. April 12, 2006.

topic: Space, People, Fantastic, Space Shuttle, Scientism

That's one wonderful thing about country music - it shifts, ebbs, and flows stylistically, unlike pop music.

- Steven Curtis Chapman

topic: Country, Ebb And Flow, Wonderful, Scientism, Wonderful Things

We have, unlike many of our competitors, continued to meet our various financial obligations.

- Gerard Arpey

topic: Financial, Obligation, Competitors, Scientism

To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.

- Alan Moore

source: "Alan Moore: The reluctant hero", www.independent.co.uk. March 15, 2004.

topic: Book, Lazy, Film, Scientism

And that Newman wasn't, and yet to me Pollock is just as radical and unlike Expressionism as Newman.

- Donald Judd

topic: Expressionism, Radical, Pollock, Scientism, Newman

And, unlike the earlier bombing on the World Trade Center, a major landmark and symbol of the strength of the financial world was, not just damaged but, totally destroyed.

- Allen Klein

topic: World, Financial, Landmarks, Scientism, World Trade

Everything is difficult, and everything worthwhile is difficult. A certain need, a need not unlike Mickey had: to know, to understand, and I had that need to understand and to know.

- Harvey Keitel

topic: Needs, Mickey, Worthwhile, Scientism

Unlike any other time in our history, we have to know that staying in school and getting an education is the most important thing you can do.

- Alexis Herman

topic: School, Important, Stay In School, Scientism

A very receptive state of mind... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it.

- Minor White

topic: Mind, Film, Sensitive, Scientism

The difference being that in films, unlike in life, good does always win over evil in the end.

- Ajay Devgan

topic: Good Life, Winning, Differences, Scientism

I may be paralyzed from the waist down, but unlike Gray Davis, I'm not paralyzed from the neck up.

- Larry Flynt

topic: May, Necks, Gray, Scientism, Paralyzed

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

source: Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1961). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1960-1961”, p.930, Best Books on

topic: Presidential, Politics, Administration, Scientism, Terminal

My life is not unlike Truman's. I can't go anywhere.

- Jim Carrey

topic: Scientism

Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.

- Elizabeth Bowen

topic: Unique, Ideas, People, Scientism, Being Unique

The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable.

- Carroll O'Connor

topic: Artist, Enemy, Reviewers, Scientism

It is for Muslim scholars to study the whole history of Islamic science completely and not only the chapters and periods which influenced Western science. It is also for Muslim scholars to present the tradition of Islamic science from the point of view of Islam itself and not from the point of view of the scientism, rationalism and positivism which have dominated the history of science in the West since the establishment of the discipline in the early part of the 20th century in Europe and America.

- Seyyed Hossein Nasr

topic: Islamic, Views, Europe, Scientism, Positivism