Quotes About Philosophy

Mathematics is less related to accounting than it is to philosophy.

It is presumed that there exists a great unity in nature, in respect of the adequacy of a single cause to account for many different kinds of consequences.

Physics isn't a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money.

All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.

Doubt everything or believe everything: these are two equally convenient strategies. With either we dispense with the need for reflection.

The world is a construct of our sensations, perceptions, memories. It is convenient to regard it as existing objectively on its own. But it certainly does not become manifest by its mere existence.

We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask where it came from.

I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know God's thoughts, the rest are details.

Philosophers of science have repeatedly demonstrated that more than one theoretical construction can always be placed upon a given collection of data.

When I started understanding how science works, it occurred to me that there just is no evidence that there is a God.

Design is in everything we make, but it's also between those things. It's a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy.

I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric.

I am a great believer in the simplicity of things and as you probably know I am inclined to hang on to broad & simple ideas like grim death until evidence is too strong for my tenacity.

It may seem bizarre, but in my opinion science offers a surer path to God than religion.

I don't believe in natural science.

We call metaphysics the Science of Life, because to know pure metaphysics is to renew the life and make death and accident impossible.

Science fails to recognize the single most potent element of human existence...faith.

All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat.

Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.

I do not believe anything very certainly, but everything very probably.

The man who cannot occasionally imagine events and conditions of existence that are contrary to the causal principle as he knows it will never enrich his science by the addition of a new idea.

Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.

The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.