Quotes About Philosophy

Nuestro saber es demasiado débil para no aceptar vivir en el misterio. Y precisamente porque el misterio existe, y porque es tan profundo, no podemos confiar en quien declara poseer la llave de este misterio. Aceptar la incertidumbre y la novedad de un pensamiento que busca nuevos caminos conlleva nuevos riesgos.

We are perhaps the only species on Earth to be conscious of the inevitability of our individual mortality.

Don't take your intuitions and ideas to be "natural": they are often the products of the ideas of audacious thinkers who came before us.

Aristotle is the first we are aware of to have asked himself the question "What is time?," and he came to the following conclusion: time is the measurement of change.

Hold on tight, because we are about to take off. "NOW" MEANS NOTHING What is happening "now" in a distant place? Imagine, for example, that your sister has gone to Proxima b, the recently discovered planet that orbits a star at approximately four light-years' distance from us. What is your sister doing now on Proxima b? The only correct answer is that the question makes no sense. It is like asking "What is here, in Beijing?" when we are in Venice.

Music can occur only in time, but if we are always in the present moment, how is it possible to hear it? It is possible, Augustine observes, because our consciousness is based on memory and on anticipation.

There is no "truer" time; there are two times and they change relative to each other. Neither is truer than the other. But there are not just two times. Times are legion: a different one for every point in space. There is not one single time; there is a vast multitude of them.

We are processes, events, composite and limited in space and time. But if we are not an individual entity, what is it that founds our identity and its unity?

To accept uncertainty doesn't detract from our sense of mystery.

What makes it so—that I am Carlo—and that my hair and my nails and my feet are considered part of me, as well as my anger and my dreams, and that I consider myself to be the same Carlo as yesterday, the same as tomorrow; the one who thinks, suffers, and perceives?

If the present has no meaning, then what "exists" in the universe? Is not what "exists" precisely what is here "in the present"? The whole idea that the universe exists now in a certain configuration and changes together with the passage of time simply doesn't stack up anymore.

Is there not perhaps a contradiction between our feeling of freedom and the rigor, as we now understand it, with which things operate in the world?

The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, or Principia, the book that founded modern science.

If we try to put together what we have learned in the twentieth century about the physical world, the clues point toward something profoundly different from our instinctive understanding of matter, space, and time.

This is the disconcerting conclusion that emerges from Boltzmann's work: the difference between the past and the future refers only to our own blurred vision of the world. It's a conclusion that leaves us flabbergasted: Is it really possible that a perception so vivid, basic, existential—my perception of the passage of time—depends on the fact that I cannot apprehend the world in all of its minute detail?

to inquire about the ultimate foundation of everything is to ask a question that perhaps simply does not make sense.

Albert Einstein gençli?inde bir y?l?n? aylakl?k ederek geçirdi. Bo?a zaman geçirmeden bir yere var?lmaz ama anne babalar? ne yaz?k ki bunu genellikle unutur. .. Albert, Kant okuyor, bo? zamanlar?nda Pavia Üniversitesi'nde derslere giriyordu; ne kay?t olmu?tu ne de s?navlara giriyordu, bunu zevk için yap?yordu. Gerçek biliminsan? ancak böyle olunur.

What is the 'present'? We say that only the things of the present exist: the past no longer exists and the future doesn't exist yet. But in physics there is nothing that corresponds to the notion of the 'now'.

Perhaps on closer inspection it is not the [Standard Model] that lacks elegance. Perhaps it is we who have not yet learned to look at it from just the right point of view, one that would reveal its hidden simplicity.

Nel mare immenso di galassie e di stelle, siamo un infinitesimo angolo sperduto; fra gli arabeschi infiniti di forme che compongono il reale, noi non siamo che un ghirigoro fra tanti

Anche le parole che ora diciamo il tempo nella sua rapina ha già portato via e nulla torna (I, 11)

We often say that causes precede effects and yet, in the elementary grammar of things, there is no distinction between "cause" and "effect.

I may not know something with certainty, but I can still assign a lesser or greater degree of probability to something.

Even the words that we are speaking now thieving time has stolen away, and nothing can return. (I, 11)