The most passionate, consistent, extreme and implacable enemy of the Enlightenment and ... all forms of rationalism ... was Johann... Georg Hamann. His influence, direct and indirect, upon the romantic revolt against universalism and scientific method ... was considerable and perhaps crucial.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Philosophers of science constantly discuss theories and representation of reality, but say almost nothing about experiment, techno...logy, or the use of knowledge to alter the world. This is odd, because 'experimental method' used to be just another name for scientific method.... I hope [to] initiate a Back-to-Bacon movement, in which we attend more seriously to experimental science. Experimentation has a life of its own.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am not afraid of the priests in the long-run. Scientific method is the white ant which will slowly but surely destroy their fort...ifications. And the importance of scientific method in modern practical life--always growing and increasing--is the guarantee for the gradual emancipation of the ignorant upper and lower classes, the former of whom especially are the strength of the priests.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best 20-20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good ...for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Scientific method is the way to truth, but it affords, even in principle, no unique definition of truth. Any so-called pragma...tic definition of truth is doomed to failure equally.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Unlike Descartes, we own and use our beliefs of the moment, even in the midst of philosophizing, until by what is vaguely called s...cientific method we change them here and there for the better. Within our own total evolving doctrine, we can judge truth as earnestly and absolutely as can be, subject to correction, but that goes without saying.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a current misconception which sees in Jung an early disciple of Freud who subsequently deserted his master. Nothing could... be more misleading. From the very beginning there were differences of procedure and of outlook that were bound to lead to divergent results. Freud's work is based on a scientific method restricted to the principle of causality: that is to say, it is assumed that everything that happens has an explanation in prior causes, and is merely the result of those causes. The world is a mechanism that can be taken to pieces and we can only understand how it works if we know how to dismantle and reassemble its constituent parts. Jung does not deny this causal principle, but he says it is inadequate to explain all the facts. In his view, we live and work, day by day, according to the principle of directed aim or purpose, as well as by the principle of causality. We are drawn onwards and our actions are significant for a future we cannot foresee, and will only be explicable when the final effect of the impulse becomes evident. In other words, life has a meaning as well as an explanation; a meaning, moreover, that we can never finally discover, for it is being extended all the time by the process of evolution.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To satisfy our doubts, therefore, it is necessary that a method should be found by which our beliefs may be caused by nothing huma...n, but by some external permanency, by something upon which our thinking has no effect.... It must be something which affects, or might affect, every man. And though these affections are necessarily as various as are individual conditions, yet the method must be such that the ultimate conclusion of every man shall be the same, or would be the same if inquiry were persisted in. Such is the method of science.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is not a single rule, however plausible, and however firmly grounded in epistemology, that is not violated at some time or o...ther. It becomes evident that such violations are not accidental events, they are not results of insufficient knowledge or of inattention which might have been avoided. On the contrary, we see that they are necessary for progress.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »