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John Herschel | In entering upon any scientific pursuit, one of the student’s first endeavours

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“In entering upon any scientific pursuit, one of the student’s first endeavours ought to be, to prepare his mind for the reception of truth, by dismissing, or at least loosening his hold on, all such crude and hastily adopted notions respecting the objects and relations he is about to examine as may tend to embarrass or mislead him.; and to strengthen himself, by something of an effort and a resolve, for the unprejudiced admission of any conclusion which shall appear to be supported by careful observation and logical argument, even…

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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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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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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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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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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…

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Doris Lessing | “You are in the process of being indoctrinated”

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“Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: “You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by…

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Dara O’Briain | Science knows it doesn’t know everything

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“Science knows it doesn’t know everything; otherwise, it’d stop. But just because science doesn’t know everything doesn’t mean you can fill in the gaps with whatever fairy tale most appeals to you.” Dara O’Briain “Die Wissenschaft weiß, dass sie nicht alles weiß, sonst würde sie aufhören. Aber nur weil die Wissenschaft nicht alles weiß, heißt das nicht, dass man die Lücken mit dem Märchen füllen kann, das einem am meisten zusagt.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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W. Winckler | As an engineer of many years standing

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“As an engineer of many years standing, I saw that this absurd allowance is only permitted in school books. No engineer would dream of allowing anything of the kind. I have projected many miles of railways and many more of canals and the allowance has not even been thought of, much less allowed for. This allowance for curvature means this – that it is 8” for the first mile of a canal, and increasing at the ratio by the square of the distance in miles; thus a small navigable canal…

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David Wardlaw Scott | Children are taught in their geography books, when too young to apprehend aright the meaning of such things

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“Children are taught in their geography books, when too young to apprehend aright the meaning of such things, that the world is a great globe revolving around the Sun, and the story is repeated continuously, year by year, till they reach maturity, at which time they generally become so absorbed in other matters as to be indifferent as to whether the teaching be true or not, and, as they hear of nobody contradicting it, they presume that it must be the correct thing, if not to believe at least to…

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Michael Meyen | because it couldn’t learn that anywhere

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“The first bachelor generation is just climbing the university chairs. People who are perfectly trained in their craft, who have internalized the hegemonic ideology, and who are good advertising media for a system that needs academic confirmation in order to be able to continue to say ‘democracy’. This generation already determines what ‘good science’ is. It fills journals, conference programs, and so eventually textbooks, lectures, and seminars – with topics, perspectives, and terms it has taken from the political agenda and the tenders linked to it, and which it doesn’t…

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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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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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Michio Kaku | the largest mismatch between theory and experiment

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“Usually in science, if we’re off by a factor of 2 or a factor of 10, we call that horrible. We say, something’s wrong with the theory. We’re off by a factor of 10! However, in cosmology, we’re off by a factor of 10 to the 120th. That is one with 100 and 20 zeroes after it. This is the largest mismatch between theory and experiment in the history of science.” Michio Kaku “Wenn wir in der Wissenschaft um einen Faktor 2 oder 10 daneben liegen, nennen wir das normalerweise…

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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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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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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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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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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…