Epistemology Quotes

"There are two kinds of truths: those of reasoning and those of fact." "The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence" "Science is nothing but perception" "Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation" "I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud" "Consciousness is an effect not a cause." "Cogito ergo sum " "The most lively thought is still inferior to the dullest sensation." "Truth is of the world; it is produced there by virtue of multiple constraints" "We can know only one thing: that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom." "The relation between power and knowledge is not one of exteriority" "In scientific thought, a process of verification arises out of the necessity of resolving the divergence of experience from the pre-established framework of knowledge " "Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality" "It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true" "The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way"