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Brian Ellis
(1929 - )
Australian science historian and philosopher who is one of the major proponents of the New Essentialist school of philosophy of science. He is a professorial fellow in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Melbourne, and emeritus professor of philosophy at La Trobe University.
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Science Quotes by Brian Ellis (1 quote)
For the religious, passivism [i.e., objects are obedient to the laws of nature] provides a clear role of God as the author of the laws of nature. If the laws of nature are God’s commands for an essentially passive world…, God also has the power to suspend the laws of nature, and so perform miracles.
— Brian Ellis
In The Philosophy of Nature: A Guide to the New Essentialism (2002), 2.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
