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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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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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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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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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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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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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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…

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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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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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Michio Kaku | in my field, uses the so-called Scientific Method

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“In Science, we always say that you make observations you have a theory you make more observations and it’s a very very tedious process… WRONG! Nobody that I know of in my field, uses the so-called Scientific Method. In our field, it’s by the seat of your pants, it’s leaps of logic, it’s GUESSWORK.” Dr. Michio Kaku “In der Wissenschaft wird immer gesagt dass man Beobachtungen macht, man hat eine Theorie man macht Beobachtungen und es ist ein sehr sehr langweiliger Prozess. Falsch! Niemand den ich kenne in meiner Umfeld…

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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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Papst Pius XII | Big Bang – Creation – Science

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“In fact, it seems that present-day science, with one sweeping step back across millions of centuries, has succeeded in bearing witness to that primordial ‘Fiat lux’ Let there be light uttered at the moment when, along with matter, there burst forth from nothing a sea of light and radiation, while the particles of the chemical elements split and formed into millions of galaxies … Hence, creation took place in time, therefore, there is a Creator, God exists. Although it is neither explicit nor complete, this is the reply we were…

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Neil deGrasse Tyson | let the dark lord Satan show you the way

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“Some have asked me where scientists turn after science has yielded no clear solution. I tell these people what my grandfather Charles Darwin told me: roll back your eyes, contort your body, and let the dark lord Satan show you the way” Neil deGrasse Tyson (attributed) “Manche haben mich gefragt, wohin sich Wissenschaftler wenden, wenn die Wissenschaft keine klare Lösung gefunden hat. Ich sage diesen Leuten, was mein Großvater Charles Darwin mir gesagt hat: Rollt eure Augen zurück, verdreht euren Körper und lasst euch vom dunklen Lord Satan alles zeigen”…

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ZUBY | One of the biggest problems with college degrees

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“One of the biggest problems with college degrees is they’ve made a lot of people think they are much smarter than they truly are. This arrogance and smugness makes them dumber because they think they’re too smart to receive new information from anybody with fewer ‘credentials’.” ZUBY | Rapper. Author. Podcaster. Speaker. Coach. “One of the biggest problems with college degrees is they’ve made a lot of people think they are much smarter than they truly are. “Eines der größten Probleme mit Hochschulabschlüssen ist, dass sie viele Menschen dazu gebracht…

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Dr Mike Yeadon | have taken as fact that viruses exist without ever reviewing the original papers

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“I’m aware this two page backgrounder & experimental proposal aims to show whether or not viruses exist, focussing on SARS-CoV-2. I’m a signatory because, having given a lot of thought to the entire proposition, I now believe it’s yet another of the lies to which we’ve been subject. In the case of scientists, even those in commercial drug discovery, have taken as fact that viruses exist without ever reviewing the original papers.” Dr Mike Yeadon “Ich bin mir bewusst, dass dieser zweiseitige Hintergrundbericht und experimentelle Vorschlag darauf abzielt, zu zeigen,…

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Thomas von Aquin | The greatest kindness

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“The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.” Thomas von Aquin “Die größte Freundlichkeit, die man einem Menschen erweisen kann, besteht darin, ihn vom Irrtum zur Wahrheit zu führen.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…