In Search of a Better World Sözleri ve Alıntıları
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Unlike everyone else who had an opinion on the matter, Kant saw that Newton’s theory was not the result of an experimental or inductive method, but a creation of human thought, of the human intellect.
It is precisely this classical concept of knowledge that Socrates is using when he says ‘I know that I know almost nothing – and hardly that!’ And Goethe is using the same classical concept of knowledge when he has Faust say: I see that true knowledge cannot be achieved And my heart almost breaks!
Our aim as scientists is objective truth; more truth, more interesting truth, more intelligible truth. We cannot reasonably aim at certainty. Once we realize that human knowledge is fallible, we realize also that we can never be completely certain that we have not made a mistake.
All human knowledge is fallible and therefore uncertain.
Primordial cell
I want to give only a very brief explanation of this. There are three possibilities for a cell; the first is death, the second is cell division; the third is fusion: a union, a merging with another cell, which almost always causes a division. Neither division nor union means death: it is a reproductive process, the changing of one living cell into two living cells that are virtually the same. They are both the living continuations of the original cell. The primordial cell came into being billions of years ago, and the primordial cell has survived in the form of trillions of cells. And it lives on still in every single one of all the cells alive now. And all life, everything that has ever lived and everything that is alive today, is the result of divisions of the primordial cell. It is therefore composed of the primordial cell, which is still alive. These are matters that no biologist can dispute and that no biologist will dispute. We are all the primordial cell, in a very similar sense (genidentity) to that in which I am the same person now as I was thirty years ago, even though perhaps not one atom of my present body existed in my body in those days.
We must distinguish sharply between truth and certainty.
Our greatest successes lead to new problems.
We live in a time in which irrational-ism has once more become fashionable. Consequently, I want to begin by declaring that I regard scientific knowledge as the best and most important kind of knowledge we have.
There are uncertain truths – even true statements that we take to be false – but there are no uncertain certainties.
sacrifice
We are right to believe that we can and should contribute to the improvement of our world. But we must not imagine that we can foresee the consequences of our plans and actions. Above all we must not sacrifice any human life (except perhaps our own if the worst comes to the worst). Nor do we have the right to persuade or even to encourage others to sacrifice themselves – not even for an idea, for a theory that has completely convinced us (probably unreasonably, because of our ignorance). In any case, one part of our search for a better world must consist in the search for a world in which others are not forced to sacrifice their lives for the sake of an idea.
"Ne var ki demokrasi akılları karıştıran bir nitelemedir. Çünkü yöneten halk değildir! Ve bir çoğunluk hakimiyeti, kolayca en kötü despotizme dönüşebilir."
" Dünya hakkında ne kadar çok şey öğrenirsek, çözümsüz sorunlara ilişkin bilgimiz, bilgisizliğimize ilişkin Sokratesçi bilgimiz, o denli bilinçli, ayrıntılı ve kesin olacaktır. Bilimsel araştırma, gerçekten de kendimizi ve bilgisizliğimizi aydınlatacak en iyi yöntemdir. Bu yöntem, biz insanoğlunun, az da olsa bilgi sahibi olduğumuz küçük şeyler konusuna ne kadar farklı yaklaştığımız bilincini kazandırır. Fakat bu sonsuz bilgisizlik âlemi içerisinde hepimiz eşitizdir."
Sayfa 55 - Yapı Kredi YayınlarıKitabı okudu
Yaşamın anlamı, hayatımız boyunca arayıp bulacağımız gizli bir şey değil, hayatımıza kendi elimizle katabileceğimiz bir şeydir.
Sapare aude! “Kendi iradenle aklını kullanma yürekliliğini göster.”
Kant, Aydınlanmanın sloganı
“ sakat ruhlu düşüncelerin bastona ihtiyacı yoktur. “