Quotes About Philosophy

You know how to split atoms, how to send explorers to the moon, how to splice genes, but you don't know how people ought to live.

I belong to those theoreticians who know by direct observation what it means to make a measurement. Methinks it were better if there were more of them.

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.

I wanted to scientize myth and mythologize science.

Pure logic could never lead us to anything but tautologies; it can create nothing new; not from it alone can any science issue.

Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy.

Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.

It is easier to believe that there was nothing before there was something than that there was something before there was nothing.

Reality is complicated. There is no justification for all of the hasty conclusions.

There wanted not some beams of light to guide men in the exercise of their Stocastick faculty.

Yes, I do not like people saying that atheism is based on science, because it's not. It's an alien invasion of science.

Many of our ideas of democracy, so much of our literature and philosophy and science can be traced back to roots right here in Athens.

How do you know that the incessant progress of science will not compel scientists to consider that life has existed during eternity, and not matter?

How can any educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science.

In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination.

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.

I like the confusion you get between science and religion … that's where belief lies and art as well.

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.

All possible knowledge, then, depends on the validity of reasoning...Unless human reasoning is valid no science can be true.

Science is the true theology.

We place no reliance On virgin or pigeon; Our Method is Science, Our Aim is Religion.

I don't believe in mathematics.

I see I have made my self a slave to Philosophy.