Quotes About Philosophy

The great man of science, unless he is also a philosopher, ... deserves the title of genius as little as the man of action.

There is no such thing as philosophy-free science, just science that has been conducted without any consideration of its underlying philosophical assumptions.

The meaning of life is 'the ultimate questioner's vanity.'

It is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values.

Science, by itself cannot, supply us with an ethic.

Through the ages, man's main concern was life after death. Today, for the first time, we find we must ask questions about whether there will be life before death.

A science fiction story is just an attempt to solve a problem that exists in the world, sometimes a moral problem, sometimes a physical or social or theological problem.

They felt that science would be corrosive to religious belief and they were worried about it. Damn it, I think they were right. It is corrosive to religious belief and it's a good thing.

Sign language is the equal of speech, lending itself equally to the rigorous and the poetic, to philosophical analysis or to making love.

Science fiction is very well suited to asking philosophical questions; questions about the nature of reality, what it means to be human, how do we know the things that we think we know.

Christian Science explains all cause and effect as mental, not physical.

Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing.

There is real confusion about what it means to be right and wrong - the difference between what spiritual beliefs are and what science is.

It is not possible for form to do without matter because it is not separable, nor can matter itself be purged of form.

None of us knows anything, not even whether we know or do not know, nor do we know whether not knowing and knowing exist, nor in general whether there is anything or not.

The discontinuous 'reduction of the wave packets' which cannot be derived from Schroedinger's equation is ... a consequence of the transition from the possible to the actual.

A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.

Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.

Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!

Logic is a wonderful thing but doesn't always beat actual thought.

Buddhist teachings are not a religion, they are a science of mind.

No science ever defends its first principles.

What is is what must be.

I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.