“[W]hy presumes purpose... But what if there isn't purpose? Whenever we say why we really mean how.”
"Lawrence Krauss: A Universe from Nothing" (2031)
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Maxim 520, trans. Stopp
Maxims and Reflections (1833)
Source: The Fabric of Reality (1997), Ch. 1
Context: To say that prediction is the purpose of a scientific theory is to confuse means with ends. It is like saying that the purpose of a spaceship is to burn fuel. … Passing experimental tests is only one of many things a theory has to do to achieve the real purpose of science, which is to explain the world.
“Our culture is teleological-it presumes purposive development and a conclusion.”
Source: Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends (1989), Chapter 6, Japan, China and the Making of nations, p. 164.
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Source: Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message
“Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?”
Book XXVIII, sec. 23.
Naturalis Historia