Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
Seventh State of the Union (3 December 1907)
1900s
Source: The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism (1990), p. 104
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
Seventh State of the Union (3 December 1907)
1900s
George Holmes Howison (1834–1916) American philosopher
Source: The Limits of Evolution, and Other Essays, Illustrating the Metaphysical Theory of Personal Ideaalism (1905), Human Immortality: its Positive Argument, p.309
Sam Harris (1967) American author, philosopher and neuroscientist
is generally a scientific one.
Source: 2010s, The Moral Landscape (2010), p. 143–144
Pope Benedict XVI (1927) 265th Pope of the Catholic Church
Homily on the fourth anniversary of the death of John Paul II http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/homilies/2009/documents/hf_ben-xvi_hom_20090402_anniv-morte-gpii_en.html (2 April 2009) <br class="br">2009
John Gray (1948) British philosopher
The Friedrich Hayek I knew, and what he got right - and wrong (2015)
“We support the efforts to keep the pits open until exhausted.”
Neil Kinnock (1942) British politician
The Scotsman (12 March 1984).
Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914) American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist
The Architecture of Theories (1891)
Context: The only possible way of accounting for the laws of nature and for uniformity in general is to suppose them results of evolution. This supposes them not to be absolute, not to be obeyed precisely. It makes an element of indeterminacy, spontaneity, or absolute chance in nature. Just as, when we attempt to verify any physical law, we find our observations cannot be precisely satisfied by it, and rightly attribute the discrepancy to errors of observation, so we must suppose far more minute discrepancies to exist owing to the imperfect cogency of the law itself, to a certain swerving of the facts from any definite formula.