Scientific Knowledge

Famous quotes containing the words scientific and/or knowledge:

“Experimental work provides the strongest evidence for scientific realism. This is not because we test hypotheses about entities. It is because entities that in principle cannot be ‘observed’ are manipulated to produce a new phenomena
[sic] and to investigate other aspects of nature.”
—Ian Hacking (b. 1936)

“And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)