Frases de Mario Bunge

„En todas las ciencias hay bolsas de pseudociencias“

—  Mario Bunge

Conferencia "Pseudociencias Naturales" en la universidad de la Punta 54:38 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKiVtLGDg1w&t=54m38s

„La pseudociencia es siempre peligrosa porque contamina la cultura y, cuando concierne a la salud, la economía o la política, pone en riesgo la vida, la libertad o la paz».“

—  Mario Bunge

sin fuentes

„La derecha defiende los intereses de los privilegiados, en tanto la izquierda se preocupa por los desamparados».“

—  Mario Bunge

sin fuentes

„Las pseudociencias son como las pesadillas: se desvanecen cuando se las examina a la luz de la ciencia».“

—  Mario Bunge

sin fuentes

„Los argentinos están obsesionados por el pasado […] la gente se pelea más por el pasado que por el futuro […] ¡Hay que pelear por el futuro no por el pasado!“

—  Mario Bunge

Conferencia "Pseudociencias Naturales" en la universidad de la Punta 81:05 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKiVtLGDg1w&t=81m05s

„¿Y cuál es la pseudociencia más peligrosa?
La teoría económica estándar, ortodoxa, porque sustenta las políticas económicas de los gobiernos conservadores y reaccionarios, que son enemigos del bienestar de la gente común».“

—  Mario Bunge

sin fuentes

„La psicología debería ser un departamento dentro de la medicina o las ciencias neurocognitivas. Pretender estudiar el alma es algo medieval. El hombre no puede ser analizado por fuera de los mecanismos biológicos que lo determinan y del medio social en el que está inserto».“

—  Mario Bunge

sin fuentes

„La mayor parte de los hechos son inobservables, por lo cual hay que inventar indicadores“

—  Mario Bunge

Conferencia "Pseudociencias Naturales" en la universidad de la Punta 14:50 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKiVtLGDg1w&t=14m50s

„Disfruta de la vida y ayuda a otros a vivir una vida digna de ser disfrutada“

—  Mario Bunge

A la caza de la realidad. La controversia sobre el realismo (pág. 373). Barcelona: Gedisa, 2007

„Toda la biología que quiere hacer pasar Dawkins por biología moderna no es tal cosa […] la idea del gen egoísta es una idea contra la bioquímica, contra la genética, que nos dice que el ADN no se reproduce por si mismo, que no se divide por si mismo, que es dividido por ensimas que hay que tener en cuenta no solo el genoma, hay que tener también el propio oma, es todo un sistema en el cual se pueden distinguir pero no separar los distintos elementos. Toda la biología de Dawkins es imaginaria. Por eso es que ha tenido tanto éxito, las obras de ficción se venden mucho mejor que trabajos científicos.“

—  Mario Bunge

„La profecía exitosa no es un aporte al conocimiento teórico, en tanto que la predicción científica fallida puede contribuir a él».“

—  Mario Bunge

sin fuentes

„The fact that a great many scientists signed Faustian pacts with the war devil throughout the twentieth century has given science a bad name, and has discouraged many able youngsters from pursuing a scientific career.“

—  Mario Bunge

Matter and Mind (2010), p. 259.
2010s

„Bunge: In September I will be 90 years old.
Reporter: You look very youthful.
Bunge: That's because I avoid alcohol, tobacco, and postmodernism.“

—  Mario Bunge

"La desigualdad provoca enfermedad," interview to elPeriódico.com (in Spanish), July 29, 2009.
2000s

„We all would like to know more and, at the same time, to receive less information. In fact, the problem of a worker in today's knowledge industry is not the scarcity of information but its excess. The same holds for professionals: just think of a physician or an executive, constantly bombarded by information that is at best irrelevant. In order to learn anything we need time. And to make time we must use information filters allowing us to ignore most of the information aimed at us. We must ignore much to learn a little.“

—  Mario Bunge

Mario Bunge, Philosophy in Crisis: The Need for Reconstruction, 2001, p. 20.
2000s

„A definitely undesirable rationale sustaining the cult of simplicity is of a metaphysical nature: namely, the wish to attain the ultimate atoms of experience and/or reality … this drive, which feeds metaphysical fundamentalism, is dangerous because it leads to postulating the final simplicity of some form of experience or some kind of substance thereby barring any inquiry into their structure.“

—  Mario Bunge

Mario Bunge, The myth of simplicity, 1963, p, 86-87; As cited in: Colin E. Gunton (1993), The One, the Three and the Many, p. 44
1960s-1990s

„Logical positivism was progressive compared with the classical positivism of Ptolemy, Hume, d'Alembert, Compte, John Stuart Mill, and Ernst Mach. It was even more so by comparison with its contemporary rivals—neo-Thomisism, neo-Kantianism, intuitionism, dialectical materialism, phenomenology, and existentialism. However, neo-positivism failed dismally to give a faithful account of science, whether natural or social. It failed because it remained anchored to sense-data and to a phenomenalist metaphysics, overrated the power of induction and underrated that of hypothesis, and denounced realism and materialism as metaphysical nonsense. Although it has never been practiced consistently in the advanced natural sciences and has been criticized by many philosophers, notably Popper (1959 [1935], 1963), logical positivism remains the tacit philosophy of many scientists. Regrettably, the anti-positivism fashionable in the metatheory of social science is often nothing but an excuse for sloppiness and wild speculation.“

—  Mario Bunge

Mario Bunge (1996). Finding Philosophy in Social Science. Yale University Press. p. 317.
1960s-1990s

„In academia much bogus knowledge is tolerated in the name of academic freedom – which is like allowing for the sale of contaminated food in the name of free enterprise. I submit that such tolerance is suicidal: that the serious students must be protected against the “anything goes” crowd.“

—  Mario Bunge

Matter and Mind (2010), p. 264.
2010s

„At all times pseudoprofound aphorisms have been more popular than rigorous arguments.“

—  Mario Bunge

Evaluating Philosophies (2012), p. xiv.
2010s

„When in the sciences or techniques one states that a certain problem is unsolvable, a rigorous demonstration of such unsolvability is required. And when a scientist submits an article to publication, the least that its referees demand is that it be intelligible. Why? Because rational beings long for understanding and because only clear statements are susceptible to be put to examination to verify whether they are true or false. In the Humanities it is the same, or it should be, but it is not always so. Nietzsche reproached John Stuart Mill's clarity. Henri Bergson, although an intuitionist himself, wrote clearly and declared that "clarity is the philosopher's courtesy."“

—  Mario Bunge

Obscurity is rude, because it assumes the interlocutor is incapable of understanding and dialoguing.
"Xenius, Platón y Manolito," newspaper essay (in Spanish) in La Nación, July 9, 2008.
2000s