Quotes About Philosophy

Science has great skills, great reasoning and great intelligence in combining effects. It knows HOW to do many things but it admittedly does not know the WHY of anything.

The infinitude of creation is great enough to make a world, or a Milky Way of worlds, look in comparison with it what a flower or an insect does in comparison with the Earth.

I don't think science is necessarily incompatible with mystical or spiritual sensibilities. I often weigh them equally in my thinking, which sometimes finds itself into the work.

The energy or active exercise of the mind constitutes life.

Science is about nature. And God, if he exists, transcends nature.

Geometry is one of the handles of science and philosophy.

It is only certain that there is nothing certain, and that nothing is more miserable or more proud than man.

By abstaining from all definite content, whether as formal logic and theory of science or as the legend of Being beyond all beings, philosophy declared its bankruptcy regarding concrete social goals.

[Plato] was the first to envisage the idea of timeless existence and to emphasize it-against reason-as a reality, more [real] than our actual experience.

What we cannot express by the art of thinking, by the art of science or philosophy or logic, we can and should express by the poetic, visual, or some other arts.

Different 'philosophies' represent nothing but methods of evaluation, which may lead to empirical mis-evaluation if science and empirical facts are disregarded.

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is Metaphysics.

The history of atomism is one of reductionism – the effort to reduce all the operations of nature to a small number of laws governing a small number of primordial objects.

The beauty of life is, therefore, geometrical beauty of a type that Plato would have much appreciated.

Belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science.

An atom must be at least as complex as a grand piano.

We, on the other hand, must take for granted that the things that exist by nature are, either all or some of them, in motion.

They [scientists of centuries past] call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about their explanations, however, God gets hardly a mention.

All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.

I believe that the more thoroughly science is studied, the further does it take us from anything comparable to atheism.

It is a law, that every event depends on some law.

As long as vitalism and spiritualism are open questions so long will the gateway of science be open to mysticism.

I used to measure the Heavens, now I measure the shadows of Earth. The mind belonged to Heaven, the body's shadow lies here.

The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true.