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William of Ockham

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Biography - William of Ockham:

English Franciscan friar, scholastic philosopher and theologian.
Born: 1287 - Died: 1347
Period:
14th century
13th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom
United Kingdom

Logic is the most useful tool of all the arts. Without it no science can be fully known.



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Quotes for: science


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Quotes about science:


Science without conscience is only ruin of the soul.





The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.





Poetry is related to philosophy as experience is related to empirical science.





Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.





Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.





Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.











Quotes for: logic


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Quotes about logic:


Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity.





Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.





Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.





The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.





Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one. Even in the most purely logical realms, it is insight that first arrives at what is new.





The supreme task of the physicist is the discovery of the most general elementary laws from which the world-picture can be deduced logically. But there is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance, and this Einfühlung [literally, empathy or 'feeling one's way in'] is developed by experience.











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William of Ockham also said...


It is pointless to do with more what can be done with fewer.





Plurality is never to be posited without necessity.












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