Quotes About Philosophy

Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.

Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.

One day we shall certainly 'reduce' thought experimentally to molecular and chemical motions in the brain; but does that exhaust the essence of thought?

If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.

Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.

Not only that God does play dice, but that He sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen.

Philosophy is empty if it isn't based on science. Science discovers, philosophy interprets.

I'm not religious in the normal sense. I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.

Mathematics has a threefold purpose. It must provide an instrument for the study of nature. But this is not all: it has a philosophical purpose, and, I daresay, an aesthetic purpose.

Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language.

Science can prove nothing about God, because God lies outside its province.

Philosophy stands in need of a science which shall determine the possibility, principles, and extent of human knowledge à priori.

Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called to fill in the gaps that science did not understand.

Lo! the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or milky way.

Let science tell us what and how. Let religion tell us who and why.

I used to say: "Everything is Representation Theory". Now I say: "Nothing is Representation Theory".

Science and democracy are the right and left hands of what I'll refer to as the move from the realm of necessity to the realm of freedom.

The alternative to thinking in evolutionary terms is not to think at all.

As, pricked out with less and greater lights, between the poles of the universe, the Milky Way so gleameth white as to set very sages questioning.

Atheism, which people have tried to for hundreds of years as 'the ways of reason and science,' is proving to be mere irrationality and ignorance.

Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'What shall we do and how shall we live?'

This upper limit, of earth at our feet is visible and touches the air, but below it reaches to infinity

It is true that many scientists are not philosophically minded and have hitherto shown much skill and ingenuity but little wisdom.