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Bertrand Russell | I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom

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“The conviction that it is important to believe this or that, even if a free inquiry would not support the belief, is one which is common to almost all religions and which inspires all systems of state education…A habit of basing convictions upon evidence, and of giving to them only that degree of certainty which the evidence warrants, would, if it became general, cure most of the ills from which the world is suffering. But at present, in most countries, education aims at preventing the growth of such a habit,…

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Rupert Sheldrake | Scientism is where people turn science into a kind of religion

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London Real: “Is that called scientism when you believe so much in the science you’ve been taught that you refuse to believe something else, and it becomes your religion in a way?” Rupert Sheldrake: “Yes, scientism is where people turn science into a kind of religion. It becomes a kind of dogmatic belief system. The irony is that a lot of people think that religion is dogmatic and science is free-thinking, but actually, in my experience, some of the most dogmatic people I know are people who’ve made science into…

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | It may be boldly asked

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“It may be boldly asked where can the man be found, possessing the extraordinary gifts of Newton, who could suffer himself to be deluded by such a hocus-pocus, if he had not in the first instance willfully deceived himself? Only those who know the strength of self-deception, and the extent to which it sometimes trenches on dishonesty, are in a condition to explain the conduct of Newton and of Newton’s school. To support his unnatural theory Newton heaps fiction upon fiction, seeking to dazzle where he cannot convince. In whatever…

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Fred Hoyle | Science today is locked into paradigms

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“Science today is locked into paradigms. Every avenue is blocked by beliefs that are wrong, and if you try to get anything published by a journal today, you will run against a paradigm and the editors will turn it down.” Sir Fred Hoyle | was a British astronomer and mathematician who was also a writer. “Die Wissenschaft ist heute in Paradigmen gefangen. Jeder Weg ist durch falsche Überzeugungen blockiert, und wenn man heute versucht, etwas in einer Zeitschrift zu veröffentlichen, stößt man auf ein Paradigma, und die Redakteure lehnen es…

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Fred Hoyle | Today we cannot say that the Copernican theory is ‘right’

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“Today we cannot say that the Copernican theory is ‘right’ and the Ptolemaic theory ‘wrong’ in any meaningful physical sense.” Sir Fred Hoyle | was a British astronomer and mathematician who was also a writer. “Heute können wir nicht sagen, dass die kopernikanische Theorie “richtig” und die ptolemäische Theorie “falsch” ist, und zwar in keinem sinnvollen physikalischen Sinne.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Fred Hoyle | we can take either the Earth or the Sun

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“we can take either the Earth or the Sun, or any other point for that matter, as the center of the solar system.” Fred Hoyle “Wir können entweder die Erde oder die Sonne oder irgendeinen anderen Punkt als Zentrum des Sonnensystems annehmen.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Albert Einstein | The struggle, so violent in the early days of science

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“The struggle, so violent in the early days of science, between the views of Ptolemy and Copernicus would then be quite meaningless. Either CS [coordinate system] could be used with equal justification. The two sentences, “the Sun is at rest and the Earth moves,” or “the Sun moves and the Earth is at rest,” would simply mean two different conventions concerning two different CS.” Albert Einstein, The Evolution of Physics: From Early Concepts to Relativity and Quanta “Der in der Frühzeit der Wissenschaft so heftige Kampf zwischen den Ansichten von…

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Peter Hübner | It’s an industrial arrangement based on the idea of mass filling

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“I am always irritated by the fact that they are not really schools at all. We don’t see places for living and learning, but barracks. Along long corridors, one room stands at attention next to the other. All the classrooms have the same shape. The children are crammed in, all facing the blackboard. The teacher writes, the children copy. It’s an industrial arrangement based on the idea of mass filling.” Peter Hübner | Architect “Mich irritiert stets, dass sie in Wahrheit gar keine Schulen sind. Wir sehen keine Orte für…

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Anita Hofmann | by practicing a state on a small scale, namely at school

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“This is about: What is actually best for children and young people? And how do they get their education and how do they become citizens? Because that is also the goal of our schooling, that I am an educated person who can also fulfill my civic duties and for that I need appropriate behavior and I learn that not only explicitly through knowledge, but also implicitly by practicing a state on a small scale, namely at school.” Anita Hofmann | Head of the State School Office for the Hersfeld-Rotenburg district…

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Albert Einstein | I feel uncertain whether I am in general on the right track

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“You imagine that I look back on my life’s work with calm satisfaction. But from nearby it looks quite different. There is not a single concept of which I am convinced that it will stand firm, and I feel uncertain whether I am in general on the right track.” Albert Einstein “Sie können sich vorstellen, dass ich mit ruhiger Zufriedenheit auf mein Lebenswerk zurückblicke. Doch aus der Nähe sieht es ganz anders aus. Es gibt kein einziges Konzept, von dem ich überzeugt bin, dass es Bestand haben wird, und ich…

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Henry Louis Mencken | And what is a good citizen?

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“And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps.” Henry Louis Mencken | Henry Louis Mencken, usually known as HL Mencken in American, was an American writer and journalist, literary critic, columnist,…

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Neil deGrasse Tyson | no longer invoke your senses to judge what makes sense

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“So, what you learn when you study science in general, but astrophysics especially, is that you no longer invoke your senses to judge what makes sense, or you no longer invoke your personal philosophies to judge what should be true. The universe is what it is, and it really doesn’t care about your senses.” Neil deGrasse Tyson “Was man also lernt, wenn man Wissenschaft im Allgemeinen und Astrophysik im Besonderen studiert, ist, dass man sich nicht mehr auf seine Sinne beruft, um zu beurteilen, was Sinn macht, oder dass man…

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Alan Hirshfeld | the pendulum of belief had swung irreversibly to the Copernican side

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“In Newton’s day, the Ptolemaic system and the Keplerian version of the Copernican system were taught side by side in the universities of the world. But the pendulum of belief had swung irreversibly to the Copernican side. In the minds of most scientists, the heliocentric universe had become fact…Yet there remained a crucial missing element in what was otherwise a complete and compelling picture of the universe: Not one shred of indisputable observational proof existed that the Earth moved through space.Here then was the holy grail of many an astronomer….

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Carl Sagan | Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking

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“Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreshadowing of an America in the time of my children or grandchildren – when the United States is a service and information economy; when Almost all major manufacturing industries have moved to other countries; when terrible technological powers are in the hands of too few, and no one representing the public interest can understand the issues; when people have lost the ability to set their own agenda. Lost or deliberately questioned by those…

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Fred Hoyle | They defend the old theories

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“They defend the old theories by complicating things to the point of incomprehensibility.” Fred Hoyle | British Mathematician and Astronomer “Sie verteidigen die alten Theorien, indem sie die Dinge bis zur Unverständlichkeit verkomplizieren.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Frederick Taylor Gates | the people yield themselves with perfect docility

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“In our dreams we have limitless resources and the people yield themselves with perfect docility to our moulding hand. The present education conventions made from our minds and unhampered by tradition we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive rural folk. We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning or of science. We have not to raise up from among them authors, editors, poets or men of letters. We shall not search for embryo great artists,…

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Rupert Sheldrake | Science delusion is the belief that science …

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“Science delusion is the belief that science has already fundamentally understood the nature of our reality and only the details need to be completed. I believe this is a seriously flawed view. Most people’s first reaction is one of disbelief and rejection when they first hear this statement. How could there actually be anything more successful than science? It has given us cell phones, computers, airplanes, advanced forms of surgery, and much more. We have huge advantages today through science and through its technical applications. It looks as if there…

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Konrad Lorenz | to throw your favorite hypothesis overboard every day

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“We have to acknowledge that most of us love their hypotheses, and, as I once said, it is a painful exercise, but one that keeps us young and healthy like morning gymnastics, to throw your favorite hypothesis overboard every day.” Konrad Lorenz “Die meisten von uns – dessen müssen wir uns bewusst sein – lieben ihre Hypothesen, und es ist, wie ich einmal sagte, eine zwar schmerzhafte, aber jung und gesund erhaltende Turnübung, täglich, gewissermaßen als Frühsport, seine Lieblingshypothese über Bord zu werfen.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Bertrand Russel | I should like to say two things

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“I should like to say two things, one intellectual and one moral. The intellectual thing I should want to say is this: When you are studying any matter, or considering any philosophy, ask yourself only what are the facts and what is the truth that the facts bear out. Never let yourself be diverted either by what you wish to believe, or by what you think would have beneficent social effects if it were believed. But look only, and solely, at what are the facts. That is the intellectual thing…

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John Hampden | We know this by patient and long continued investigations

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“We know this by patient and long continued investigations – the surface of water is a LEVEL SURFACE. This is the key which is unlocking the minds of the people and letting in a flood of light upon the question of the shape of the earth. We know consequently that the surface of earth is a plane surface and that the earth itself can NOT be a globe.” John Hampden “Wir wissen dies durch geduldige und langanhaltende Untersuchungen – die Wasseroberfläche ist eine ebenmäßige OBERFLÄCHE. Dies ist der Schlüssel, der…

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Paul Feyerabend | the establishment of the heliocentric worldview

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“There are numerous sociological and historical case studies describing how opinions are established as “knowledge” in societies. For example, Paul Feyerabend explained in 1975 that the establishment of the heliocentric worldview was not based on new discoveries, but on a clever propaganda strategy of Galileo Galilei. According to Feyerabend, the representatives of the geocentric world view “did not recognize the propaganda value of predictions and dramatic shows, nor did they make use of the intellectual and social power of the newly created classes. They lost because they did not take…

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Sir Fred Hoyle | So, does the earth spin?

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So, does the earth spin? The late Sir Fred Hoyle, once accepted as one of the world’s leading astrophysicists, affirms the current position of science in regard to the long held claim that it does: “We can talk with precision of a body as spinning around relative to something or another, but there is no such thing as absolute spin: the Earth is not spinning to those of us who live on its surface and our point of view is as good as anyone else’s – but no better.” (F….

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Walter van der Kamp | Since Galileo science has shed logical proofs in favour of plausibility

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“Actually neither this Galileo, nor his mentor Copernicus, had a shred of truly tangible and unequivocal evidence for their heliocentric belief – and well do historians, astronomers, and philosophers of science know it! As I recently found it succinctly expressed in a research paper “Since Galileo science has shed logical proofs in favour of plausibility.” [Chris Biebricher: ‘Evolutionary Research,’ in Vincent Brummer, Interpreting the Universe as Creation. Kampen Kok Pharos, 1991, p.93.] Indeed, by this “scientific method” of adding plausible explanations to plausible explanations astronomy has arrived at the present…

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Brian Cox | There is absolutely no basis at all for thinking the world is flat

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“There is absolutely no basis at all for thinking the world is flat. Nobody in human history, as far as I know, has thought the world was flat. The Greeks measured the radius of the Earth. I cannot conceive of a reason why anybody would think the world is flat. There are interesting bits of physics that tell you you live on a spinning planet and one of them is called the Coriolis force, which is the force that’s responsible for causing storm systems to rotate on the planet. So…

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Max Planck | Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind

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“Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: Ye must have faith. It is a quality which the scientist cannot dispense with.” Max Planck | ( Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck ) was a German theoretical physicist whose discovery of energy quanta won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918 “Jeder, der sich ernsthaft mit wissenschaftlicher Arbeit irgendeiner Art beschäftigt hat, weiß, dass über dem Eingangstor des Tempels…

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Marcia Angell | It is simply no longer possible

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“It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as editor of The New England Journal of Medicine” Marcia Angell | ehem. Chefredakteurin NEJM The New England Journal of Medicine | 15.01.2009 l New York Review “Es ist einfach nicht mehr möglich, einem Großteil der veröffentlichten klinischen Forschung zu glauben oder sich auf…

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Richard Horton | The case against science is straightforward

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“The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and flagrant conflicts of interest, together with an obsession for pursuing fashionable trends of dubious importance, science has taken a turn towards darkness” Richard Horton, Publisher of The Lancet “Das Argument gegen die Wissenschaft ist einfach: Ein Großteil der wissenschaftlichen Literatur, vielleicht die Hälfte, ist einfach unwahr. Geplagt von Studien mit kleinen Stichproben, winzigen Effekten, ungültigen explorativen Analysen und eklatanten Interessenkonflikten,…

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George Francis Rayner Ellis | People need to be aware

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“People need to be aware that there is a range of models that could explain the observations….For instance, I can construct you a spherically symmetrical universe with Earth at its center, and you cannot disprove it based on observations….You can only exclude it on philosophical grounds. In my view there is absolutely nothing wrong in that. What I want to bring into the open is the fact that we are using philosophical criteria in choosing our models. A lot of cosmology tries to hide that.” George Francis Rayner Ellis |…

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Edwin Grant Conklin | Dictators seek to control men’s thoughts

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“Dictators seek to control men’s thoughts as well as their bodies and so they attempt to dictate science, education and religion. But dictated education is usually propaganda, dictated history is often mythology, dictated science is pseudo-science.” Edwin Grant Conklin | From Address as retiring president before the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Indianapolis (27 Dec 1937). Published in ‘Science and Ethics’, Science (31 Dec 1937), 86, No. 2244, 601. “Diktatoren wollen die Gedanken der Menschen ebenso kontrollieren wie ihre Körper und versuchen daher, Wissenschaft, Bildung und Religion zu…