10 Quotes by Felix Alba-Juez about epistemology
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Why is it so difficult for us to think in relative terms? Well, for the good reason that human nature loves absoluteness, and erroneously considers it as a state of higher knowledge.
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The command of our language is crucial to focusing our thoughts and communicating them with precision to others.
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Subjectivity is strange to Science, while Relativity is an objective part of it.
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To believe in nothing is as ridiculous as to believe in everything. Reason and factual evidence may convert a belief into knowledge.
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Truth is not as pompous and romantic as myth ... but it has the immeasurable value of being the Truth.
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After some cogitation, it is difficult not to agree with Herman Bondi (1919 - 2005), who in his book 'Relativity and Common Sense' says:... The surprising thing, surely, is that molecules in a gas behave so much as billiard balls, not that electrons behave so little like billiard balls.
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If Relativity Theory kills our deepest convictions, why not start by finding out why we believed in them for millennia?
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Without causality in the world, there is no point in educating people, or making any moral or political appeal.
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Is numerical equality (forced by the use of specific physical units) the same as conceptual equality? Of course NOT!
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