Quotes About Philosophy

Metaphysics is a science.

Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even the fullest existence as such is but a happy moment.

Science cannot destroy the consciousness of freedom, without which there is no morality and no art, but it can refute it.

Every science in a certain degree starts from faith, and, on the contrary, faith, which does not lead to science, is mistaken faith or superstition, but real, genuine faith it is not.

Entities should not be posited unnecessarily.

From the way of Go the beauty of Japan and the Orient had fled. Everything had become science and regulation.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but ... hypotheses may not.

All statements are true, if you are free to redefine their terms.

In this sense, science, as physicist Steven Weinberg has emphasized, does not make it impossible to believe in God, but rather makes it possible to not believe in God.

There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.

Seek simplicity, and distrust it.

Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.

But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.

Some piously record 'In the beginning God', but I say 'In the beginning hydrogen'.

The energy available for each individual man is his income, and the philosophy which can teach him to be content with penury should be capable of teaching him also the uses of wealth.

Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.

Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.

What good your beautiful proof on the transcendence of Pi: Why investigate such problems, given that irrational numbers do not even exist?

All we can do is search for the falsity content in our best theory.

Science and knowledge, especially that of philosophy, came from the Arabs into the West.

There is a point at which methods devour themselves.

God is dead, God remains dead, and we have killed him.

Science is the only religion of mankind.