Weekly Quotes
4th March
I shall define a world-view as a collection of beliefs, attitudes and assumptions that involves the whole person, not only the intellect, has some kind of coherence and universality and imposes itself with a power far greater than the power of facts and fact-related theories.
I shall define a world-view as a collection of beliefs, attitudes and assumptions that involves the whole person, not only the intellect, has some kind of coherence and universality and imposes itself with a power far greater than the power of facts and fact-related theories.
"Quantum theory and our view of the world", in: Jan Hilgevoord (ed), Physics and our View of the World, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1994. p.152.
We should regard the world-views of the Bible, the Gilgamesh epic, the Iliad, the Edda, as fully fledged alternative cosmologies which can be used to modify, and even to replace, the ‘scientific’ cosmologies of a given period.
We should regard the world-views of the Bible, the Gilgamesh epic, the Iliad, the Edda, as fully fledged alternative cosmologies which can be used to modify, and even to replace, the ‘scientific’ cosmologies of a given period.
Against Method (1975), Verso Books, 1980. p.47., fn. 1.