Interview by Bill Moyers on Bill Moyers' World Of Ideas (21 October 1988); transcript http://www-tc.pbs.org/moyers/faithandreason/print/pdfs/woi%20asimov2.pdf (pages 5-6) <br class="br">General sources <br class="br">Context: Science doesn't purvey absolute truth. Science is a mechanism. It's a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe and seeing whether they match. And this works, not just for the ordinary aspects of science, but for all of life. I should think people would want to know that what they know is truly what the universe is like, or at least as close as they can get to it.
“Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth”
Eric Temple Bell (1883–1960) mathematician and science fiction author born in Scotland who lived in the United States for most of his li…
Source: Mathematics: Queen and Servant of Science (1938), p. 291
Context: Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth; some of its rivals do. That science is in some respects inhuman may be the secret of its success in alleviating human misery and mitigating human stupidity.
Arthur Koestler book The Act of Creation
The Act of Creation, London, (1970) p. 253.
Context: Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky. The glory of science is not in a truth more absolute than the truth of Bach or Tolstoy, but in the act of creation itself. The scientist's discoveries impose his own order on chaos, as the composer or painter imposes his; an order that always refers to limited aspects of reality, and is based on the observer's frame of reference, which differs from period to period as a Rembrant nude differs from a nude by Manet.
“Only the science of the Absolute gives meaning and discipline to the science of the relative.”
Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) Swiss philosopher
[2013, From the Divine to the Human, World Wisdom, 119, 978-1-936597-32-1]
Spiritual path, Knowledge
“There can be no absolute reality, there can be no absolute truth.”
Kevin Warwick (1954) British robotics and cybernetics researcher
in Kevin Warwick "The Matrix - Our Future?", Chapter in "Philosophers Explore the Matrix", edited by C.Grau, Oxford University Press, 2005.
Gregory Bateson (1904–1980) English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician and cyberneticist
Source: Mind and Nature, a necessary unity, 1988, p. 29
Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002) American evolutionary biologist
"An Essay on a Pig Roast," p. 437
Bully for Brontosaurus (1991)
“Metaphysics is the science of the Absolute or the true nature of things.”
Frithjof Schuon book Logic and Transcendence
[2009, Logic and Transcendence, World Wisdom, 29, 978-1-933316-73-4]
Spiritual path, Metaphysics
Dara Ó Briain (1972) Irish comedian and television presenter
Dara Ó Briain Talks Funny: Live in London (2008)
“Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.”
John Howard (1939) 25th Prime Minister of Australia
ABC Radio "AM" (25 August 1995)
