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  • Positivism stands or falls with the principle of scientism, that is that the meaning of knowledge is defined by what the sciences do and can thus be adequately explicated through the methodological analysis of scientific procedures.

  • To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.

    Book   Lazy   Film  
    "Alan Moore: The reluctant hero", www.independent.co.uk. March 15, 2004.
  • A very receptive state of mind... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it.

  • That's one wonderful thing about country music - it shifts, ebbs, and flows stylistically, unlike pop music.

  • See, unlike most hackers, I get little joy out of figuring out how to install the latest toy.

    Joy   Littles   Toys  
  • When women work together, it's a bond unlike any other.

  • It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal

    Winning   Males   Fiction  
  • Our aristocracy, unlike that of Europe, is open to all comers.

    Josiah Strong (1891). “Our Country, Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis”
  • The Greeks distinguished between good and bad behavior, language that enhanced or diminished persons. Being intoxicated with scientism, we fail to recognize that the seemingly technical terms used to identify psychiatric illnesses and interventions are simply dyphemisms and euphemisms.

    "The Untamed Tongue: A Dissenting Dictionary". Book by Thomas Szasz, 1990.
  • A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

    Essays "Of Atheism" (1625)
  • It is for Muslim scholars to study the whole history of Islamic science completely and not only the chapters and periods which influenced Western science. It is also for Muslim scholars to present the tradition of Islamic science from the point of view of Islam itself and not from the point of view of the scientism, rationalism and positivism which have dominated the history of science in the West since the establishment of the discipline in the early part of the 20th century in Europe and America.

    Islamic   Views   Europe  
  • The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

  • Insofar as he makes use of his healthy senses, man himself is the best and most exact scientific instrument possible. The greatest misfortune of modern physics is that its experiments have been set apart from man, as it were, physics refuses to recognize nature in anything not shown by artificial instruments, and even uses this as a measure of its accomplishments.

    Science   Men   Healthy  
  • The space shuttle has been a fantastic vehicle. It is unlike any other thing that we've ever built. Its capabilities have carried several hundred people into space.

    Interview with George Diller, www.nasa.gov. April 12, 2006.
  • We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two gives us superstition plus scientism -- a Mongoloid metaphysic.

    Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.13, RosettaBooks
  • The difference being that in films, unlike in life, good does always win over evil in the end.

  • An enlightened trust in the sovereignty of human reason can be every bit as magical as the exploits of Merlin, and a faith in our capacity for limitless self-improvement just as much a wide-eyed superstition as a faith in leprechauns.

  • It's actually not unlike Google at that stage of development. They had an up-and-running site. It wasn't losing very much money, it wasn't making very much money, but it was growing.

  • An important tradition within westren philosophy believes in the primacy of natural science as a guide to truth. This is sometimes met with the charge that such an allegiance amounts to scientism - the view that the only things that really exist are those recognized by fundamental physical theory, and that the only forms of genuine knowledge are scientific ones.

    J. J. C. Smart, J. J. Haldane (2008). “Atheism and Theism”, p.82, John Wiley & Sons
  • Turkey, unlike chicken, has very elegant characteristics. It has more of a cache than chicken. Turkey is a delicacy, so it should be presented in such a way.

  • Unlike the stage, I never found it helpful to be good in a bad movie.

    Helpful   Found   Stage  
  • This is the reality of nuclear weapons: they may trigger a world war; a war which, unlike previous ones, destroys all of civilization.

    Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.131, I.B.Tauris
  • I have to play as much of the game as I allow myself to get the music heard. But it's not unlike the rest of the world, so I'm not as up in arms about it as I could be.

    Games   Play   World  
  • Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.

    Unique   Ideas   People  
    ELIZABETH BOWEN (1935). “The House in Paris”
  • I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.

    Needs   Slavery   Prove  
    Gerrit Smith (1837). “Letter of Gerrit Smith to Rev. James Smylie: Of the State of Mississippi”, p.6
  • Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.

  • The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.

    "Daniel Dennett: Darwin's Dangerous Idea (1995)". Interview with Hari Kunzru, www.harikunzru.com. December 17, 2008.
  • But the threat posed by the radical Islamists represents an unusual conflict, unlike any experienced by our nation before: we face an enemy that is not a state.

    Enemy   Faces   Conflict  
  • Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

    Work   Men   Wrath  
    Grapes of Wrath (1939) ch. 14
  • Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.

    Strong   Mistake   Men  
    The Second Sin "Science and Scientism" (1973)
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