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Tag Name "Determinism" (48)

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Science admits no exceptions otherwise there would be no determinism in science, or rather, there would be no science.
Claude Bernard
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It is ironic that a movement that made its reputation championing the irrelevance of biological differences when those differences were to most women's disadvantage immediately returned to biological determinism when those differences were to the most women's advantage.
Warren Farrell
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The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.
Albert Pike
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Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.
Albert Einstein
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Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.
Albert Einstein
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Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism.
Terry Eagleton
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The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.
Max Planck
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Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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I was writing fiction steadily, but I found that the stark determinisms of code were a welcome relief from the ambiguities of literary narrative.
Vikram Chandra
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Obviously if any actions, even a lunatic's, can be causeless, determinism is done for. If the chain of causation can be broken for a madman, it can be broken for a man.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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... the space left to freedom is very small.ends are inherent in human nature and the same for all.
Hannah Arendt
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Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
Laozi
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Thus far we have considered the problem of conservation of land purely as an economic issue. A false front of exclusively economic determinism is so habitual to Americans in discussing public questions that one must speak in the language of compound interest to get a hearing.
Aldo Leopold
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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Whatever open-border libertarians think about immigration law, once the immigration scofflaw steals, trespasses, or vandalizes private property, said alien is guilty of crimes. To say, moreover, that the state's laws made masses of men and women commit such crimes is to voice the philosophy of determinism, not individualism.
Ilana Mercer
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The two go hand in hand like a dance: chance flirts with necessity, randomness with determinism. To be sure, it is from this interchange that novelty and creativity arise in Nature, thereby yielding unique forms and novel structures.
Eric Chaisson
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Circumstance does not make the man it reveals him to himself.
James Allen
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In fact, if you are faced with the prospect of running across an open field in which lightning bolts are going to be a problem, you are much better off if their timing and location are determined by something, since then they may be predictable by you, and hence avoidable. Determinism is the friend, not the foe, of those who dislike inevitability.
Daniel Dennett
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History abhors determinism but cannot tolerate chance.
Bernard DeVoto
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God does not play dice [with the universe]. [Ger., Gott wurfelt nicht.]
Albert Einstein
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An honest man is always a child.
Socrates
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A profound political question is suddenly on the table: Must the country continue to give precedence to private financial gain and market determinism over human lives and broad public values?
William Greider
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That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Henry David Thoreau
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Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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