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DIRECTIONS: Read each of the following quotes.
For each quote, decide whether the author would be more likely to
align himself with Plato, Francis Bacon, or Karl Popper on the role
of observation in science. List reasons for your decisions. This
assignment will be checked but not handed in, so your lists need not
be of final draft quality.
- Intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an
illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in each
generation is to reclaim a little more land. - T. H. Huxley
- (science) isn't a series of eternally "true" or "false"
statements. Instead, it is a collection of conditionally
"adequate" or "inadequate" explanations. - Dennis Schmidt
Kensho
- If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is
open to everything. In the beginner's mind there are many
possibilities; in the expert's mind, there are few … That is
the real secret to the arts: always be a beginner. - Shunryu
Suzuki
- Language is parametal, not perimetal. - Samuel Delaney
Triton