Schauberger
This 'higher' practically implementable metaphysics has nothing in common with today's science. We are therefore here concerned with real 'knowledge' and in no way with the commonly held concept of 'science'. [The Energy Evolution - Harnessing Free Energy from Nature, The Life-Current in Air and Water]
Ramsay
"...but he gets out of the difficulty by saying that "music must always be a kind of metaphysical science!" [Scientific Basis and Build of Music, page 8]
Bertrand Russell
”Metaphysics, or the attempt to conceive the world as a whole by means of thought, has been developed, from the first, by the union and conflict of two very different human impulses, the one urging men towards mysticism, the other urging them towards science. Some men have achieved greatness through one of these impulses alone, others through the other alone: in David Hume, for example, the scientific impulse reigns quite unchecked, while in William Blake a strong hostility to science coexists with profound mystic insight. But the greatest men who have been philosophers have felt the need both of science and of mysticism: the attempt to harmonize the two was what made their life, and what always must, for all its arduous uncertainty, make philosophy, to some minds, a greater thing than either science or religion.” p. 1
Russell concludes:
”Scientific philosophy thus represents, though as yet only in a nascent condition, a higher form of thought than any pre-scientific belief or imagination, and, like every approach to self-transcendence, it brings with it a rich reward in increase of scope and breadth and comprehension. A truly scientific philosophy will be more humble, more piecemeal, more arduous, offering less glitter of outward mirage to flatter fallacious hopes, but more indifferent to fate, and more capable of accepting the world without the tyrannous imposition of our human and temporary demands.” p.32 [Bertrand Russell, Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays (1914), Essay I: Mysticism and Logic, pp. 1 & 32. Originally published The Hilbert Journal 12 (July 1914)]
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