Scientific Research

Equipped with his five

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Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science. Edwin Powell Hubble

Combining the experience of

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Combining the experience of a seasoned university president with the analysis of a respected legal scholar, Derek Bok explores what he concludes are ‘signs of excessive commercialization in every part of the university.’ His somber assessment of the current state of athletics, scientific research, and distance education, and his call for review and restraint, should … Read more

Yet, in holding scientific

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Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite. Dwight D. Eisenhower

If neuroscientific research shows

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If neuroscientific research shows that those mechanisms only contain comparative information about colour differences, and have ‘thrown away’ more fine-grained information about the absolute colours of single surfaces, then that would support my position, in a way that just introspecting our colour experiences can’t. David Papineau

There is no reason

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There is no reason why an extraphysical general principle is necessarily to be avoided, since such principles could conceivably serve as useful working hypotheses. For the history of scientific research is full of examples in which it was very fruitful indeed to assume that certain objects or elements might be real, long before any procedures … Read more

I have always believed

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I have always believed that scientific research is another domain where a form of optimism is essential to success: I have yet to meet a successful scientist who lacks the ability to exaggerate the importance of what he or she is doing, and I believe that someone who lacks a delusional sense of significance will … Read more

All the classical meditation

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All the classical meditation traditions, in one way or another, stress nonattachment to the self as a goal of practice. Oddly, this dimension is largely ignored in scientific research, which tends to focus on health and other such benefits. I suppose the difference has to do with the contrast in views of the self from … Read more