If I am not mistaken, psychology, psychiatry and some branches of sociology, not to speak about the so-called philosophy of history, are even more affected by what I have called the scientistic prejudice, and by specious claims of what science can achieve.
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It may downplay legitimate advances made by applying scientific rigor to social issues.
The conflict between what in its present mood the public expects science to achieve in satisfaction of popular hopes and what is really in its power is a serio…
The chief point we must remember is that the great and rapid advance of the physical sciences took place in fields where it proved that explanation and predict…
The confidence in the unlimited power of science is only too often based on a false belief that the scientific method consists in the application of a ready-ma…
This actual world of what is knowable, in which we are and which is in us, remains both the material and the limit of our consideration.
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The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.