Kenneth Walker - Meaning and Purpose

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To understand the true function of science and to be able to evaluate its theories it will first be necessary to have a very clear idea of the method by which it works.

Kenneth Walker

Science is the product of the intellect and its language is the language of matter.

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It may be said that all understanding of the universe comes from the combined action of two faculties in us, the power to register impressions and the capacity to reason and reflect on them.

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We first described billiard balls in terms of atoms and then described atoms in terms of billiard balls, a description that brought us no nearer to a true understanding of the ultimate nature of either billiard balls or atoms.

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And how small is the sum of our actual knowledge. With regards to all the more important things, to the questions which concern us more nearly, it amounts to little beyond a consciousness of our own ignorance.

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We must accept the fact that the scientist can answer only a few of the questions we ask him and never the question of "why?."

Kenneth Walker