Quotes About Philosophy

Here is something Category-Theorists like: it is trivial, but not trivially trivial.

The human heart concerns us more than the poring into microscopes, and is larger than can be measured by the pompous figures of the astronomer.

I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?

We are in the grip of a scientific materialism, caught in a vicious cycle where our security today seems to depend on regimentation and weapons which will ruin us tomorrow.

All science is transcendental or else passes away.

Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science].

Without consciousness the mind-body problem would be much less interesting. With consciousness it seems hopeless.

Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.

You might say that science operates pragmatically and religion by divine guidance. If valid, they would reach the same conclusions but science would take a lot longer.

People think of science as rolling back the mystery of God. I look at science as slowly creeping toward the mystery of God.

There is no better soporific and sedative than skepticism.

It is a fraud of the Christian system to call the sciences human invention; it is only the application of them that is human.

Science [is] knowledge of the truth of Propositions and how things are called.

The initial stage, the act of conceiving or inventing a theory, seems to me neither to call for logical analysis nor to be susceptible of it.

Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.

Besides numerous science courses, I had the opportunity to study philosophy, the history of architecture, economics, and Russian history in courses taught by extraordinarily knowledgeable professors.

But experiments went for nothing,-dualism had sworn to uphold its position.

The universal and lasting establishment of peace constitutes not merely a part, but the whole final purpose and end of the science of right as viewed within the limits of reason.

Philosophically, mathematics is not a part of science. Mathematics studies patterns, science studies nature

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

Science does not stand still, and neither does philosophy, although the latter has a tendency to walk in circles.

Anarchism is a theory of political science and is opposed to government in the political sense.

The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century.

Satyagraha as conceived by me is a science in the making.