Quotes About Philosophy

A little science estranges a man from God; a lot of science brings him back.

To simply dismiss the concept of God as being unscientific is to violate the very objectivity of science itself.

Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.

I believe there is no philosophical high-road in science, with epistemological signposts. No, we are in a jungle and find our way by trial and error, building our road behind us as we proceed.

All knowledge degenerates into probability.

Those who say that the study of science makes a man an atheist, must be rather silly people.

The meaning of world is the separation of wish and fact.

To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

All other things have a portion of everything, but Mind is infinite and self-ruled, and is mixed with nothing but is all alone by itself.

Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.)

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

Science strives for answers, but art is happy with a good question.

The changing of Bodies into Light, and Light into Bodies, is very conformable to the Course of Nature, which seems delighted with Transmutations.

I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.

Art for me is the science of freedom.

The existence of God is not subjective. He either exists or he doesn't. It's not a matter of opinion. You can have your own opinions. But you can't have your own facts.

By skepticism . . . we arrive first at suspension of judgment, and second at freedom from disturbance.

Science doesn't make it impossible to believe in God, it just makes it possible not to believe in God

But if science may be said to be blind without philosophy, it is true also that philosophy is virtually empty without science.

Ohne Phosphor, Kein Gedanke. Without phosphorus there would be no thoughts.

Evolution is a religion. This was true of evolution in the beginning, and it is true of evolution still today.

Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems.

To say that a man is made up of certain chemical elements is a satisfactory description only for those who intend to use him as a fertilizer.

Philosophy, art, and science are not the mental objects of an objectified brain but the three aspects under which the brain becomes subject.