Shadows
of the Mind.
"Understanding is, after all, what
science is all about -- and science is a great deal more than
mere mindless computation."1a
PLATO
ARISTOTLE
DESCARTES
PASCAL
BERKELEY
VOLTAIRE
JAMES SANTAYANA
RUSSELL
POPPER
ORWELL
DRUCKER
"
. . . the 'tilting' of light cones, i.e. the distortion of
causality due to gravity, is not only a subtle phenomenon, but
a real phenomenon, and it cannot be explained away
by a residual or 'emergent' property that arises when
conglomerations of matter get large enough."1b*
"
. . .
[Einstein's general relativity] theory is confirmed
overall to an error of no more than about
10-14."1c
EINSTEIN
WIGNER
"The expectations
of quantum theory were triumphantly vindicated . . ."1d
PLANCK
SCHRODINGER
"Gödel's
argument does not argue in favour of there being inaccessible
mathematical truths. What it does argue for, on the other
hand, is that human insight lies beyond formal argument
and beyond computable procedures. Moreover, it argues
powerfully for the very existence of the Platonic mathematical
world. Mathematical truth is not determined arbitrarily
by the rules of some 'man-made' formal system, but has an absolute
nature, and lies beyond any such system of specifiable
rules."1e*
PLATO
WIGNER
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