Quotes About Philosophy

At least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe.

Political Science carries inseparably with it the study of piety, and that he who is not pious cannot be truly wise.

Astrology is a disease, not a science.

The disinterested imaginative core of mythology is what develops into literature, science, philosophy. Religion is applied mythology.

Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically', they really mean, 'not really'.

The chief business of seventeenth-century philosophy was to reckon with seventeenth-century science... the chief business of twentieth-century philosophy is to reckon with twentieth-century history.

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.

We make versions, and true versions make worlds.

It appears that the solution of the problem of time and space is reserved to philosophers who, like Leibniz, are mathematicians, or to mathematicians who, like Einstein, are philosophers.

And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore.

Prejudice for regularity and simplicity is a source of error that has only too often infected philosophy.

Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.

There are infinite worlds both like and unlike this world of ours. For the atoms being infinite in number... are borne on far out into space.

Our account does not rob the mathematicians of their science... In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do not use it.

A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual" - find out how he feels about astrology.

Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear.

It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.

Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance.

Science is almost totally incompatible with religion.

Ahimsa is a science. The word 'failure' has no place in the vocabulary of science.

We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !

Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.

Some people try to tell me that science will never answer the big questions we have in life. To them I say: baloney! The real problem is your questions aren't big enough.

Nonbelievers may hear all the notes of science, but without a theistic context and perspective they will not hear the song.