Ernest Nagel famous quotes

It is the desire for explanations that are at once systematic and controllable by factual evidence that generates science; and it is the organization and classification of knowledge on the basis of explanatory principles that is the distinctive goal of the sciences.
-- Ernest Nagel

#Knowledge #Organization #Goal

Like Molière's M. Jourdain, who spoke prose all his life without knowing it, mathematicians have been reasoning for at least two millennia without being aware of all the principles underlying what they were doing. The real nature of the tools of their craft has become evident only within recent times A renaissance of logical studies in modern times begins with the publication in 1847 of George Boole's The Mathematical Analysis of Logic.
-- Ernest Nagel

#Nature #Real #Two

Human destiny is an episode between two oblivions.
-- Ernest Nagel

#Destiny #Two #Oblivion

Like Molière's M. Jourdain, who spoke prose all his life without knowing it, mathematicians have been reasoning for at least two millennia without being aware of all the principles underlying what they were doing. The real nature of the tools of their craft has become evident only within recent times A renaissance of logical studies in modern times begins with the publication in 1847 of George Boole's The Mathematical Analysis of Logic.
-- Ernest Nagel

#Nature #Real #Science

Even more exasperating than the guy who thinks he knows it all is the one who really does.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

We know nothing at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren. The real nature of things we shall never know.

At the banquet table of nature, there are no reserved seats. You get what you can take, and you keep what you can hold. If you can't take anything, you won't get anything, and if you can't hold anything, you won't keep anything. And you can't take anything without organization.

My goal? To test out every diet and exercise regimen on planet earth and figure out which work best. I sweated, I cooked, I learned to pole dance. In the end, I lost weight, lowered my cholesterol and doubled my energy level. I feel better than I ever have.

Getting adjusted regularly is part of my goal to win in life and on the field.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal

This is my belief: that through difficulties and problems God gives us the opportunity to grow. So when your hopes and dreams and goals are dashed, search among the wreckage, you may find a golden opportunity hidden in the ruins''.

It's all about how can you take care of yourself when furthering your life's goals and ambitions, and purpose and whatever you choose - family, career - to maintain a really balanced, whole, healthy outlook.

The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.