Federigo Enriques Quotes

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The progress of science is dependent upon science itself, it is an extension and not a creation.

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Impossibility exists only in relation to the instruments specified.

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Man's determination not to be deceived is precisely the origin of the problem of knowledge. The question is always and only this: to learn to know and to grasp reality in the midst of a thousand causes of error which tend to vitiate our observation.

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All observations and experiments are of scientific value only in so far as they are supported by a reasoning process. Otherwise we should be obliged to wait until nature should be so obliging as to teach us, by answering at random those questions which we should neither know how to ask nor to interpret.

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Nothing is so dangerous as to shut oneself within a circle from which, with rigid logic, everything is banished that does not fit in with the results of a narrow experience!

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To the pride of spirit, which believes itself sole lord of a world of dreams, and would discover all laws within itself, science replies by showing a reality which spreads about and beyond us, and so escapes the vain claim that it should be subject to our sentiments or to our will.

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Science would never have reached its present state, had it not been constantly changing the form and the statement of its problems, adapting the scope of its researches to the changed conditions of thought.

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Science, considered as to its growth, not only rises to ever greater objectivity, but by contrast carries to a higher point the subjectivity of its representations which are its means of conquest.

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The end for which we ought to strive today is a scientific education, which shall enable the workers in any field whatsoever to understand better how the object of their own research is subordinated to more general problems.

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Our need is to perfect the organization of that work which ought to be accomplished, under free conditions, through a fitting scientific education. To this end it is necessary that all enlightened men, in whatever special branch of study they are respectively working, should be conscious of the unity of the aims of science.

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Since truth and error enter our minds by the door which the senses open to knowledge, we are soon obliged to be on our guard against illusions.

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How can we doubt that of which every man is most certain even from his earliest infancy?

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