Quotes About Philosophy

The progress of mankind is due exclusively to the progress of natural sciences, not to morals, religion or philosophy.

I wouldn't say philosophy and theology are dead. Brain science doesn't invent new philosophies but it helps remind us which of our existing philosophies are more true.

All knowledge has an ultimate goal. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge is, say what you will, nothing but a dismal begging of the question.

I also ask you my friends not to condemn me entirely to the mill of mathematical calculations, and allow me time for philosophical speculations, my only pleasures.

Philosophers and theologians have yet to learn that a physical fact is as sacred as a moral principle. Our own nature demands from us this double allegiance.

I'm a scientist. We don't talk about the spirit. Soul is a four letter word in our tradition.

To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.

All of science is built on territory once occupied by gods. Is there some boundary at which science is supposed to stop?

Eventually we will all wither and die in the wasteland of logic and science.

It has often been said, and certainly not without justification, that the man of science is a poor philosopher.

Theology is the science of the divine lie.

To no surprise, the theories and structures of naturalistic science affirm naturalistic assumptions.

First causes are outside the realm of science.

Frege has the merit of ... finding a third assertion by recognising the world of logic which is neither mental nor physical.

Ridley Scott's 'Prometheus' is a magnificent science-fiction film, all the more intriguing because it raises questions about the origin of human life and doesn't have the answers.

But science perhaps is very difficult without faith. Also there is no simple way of saying now we have science, we don't need faith anymore.

Only a fool would leave the enjoyment of rainbows to the opticians. Or give the science of optics the last word on the matter.

Science simply cannot adjudicate the issue of God's possible superintendence of nature.

Religion ends and philosophy begins, just as alchemy ends and chemistry begins, and astrology ends and astronomy begins.

There is nothing more certain in nature than that it is impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated.

Science is not inherently good.

There is no deterioration and there is no creation. There are projections, moments of existence. Each moment is perfect.

Such philosophy as shall not vanish in the fume of subtile, sublime, or delectable speculation but shall be operative to the endowment and betterment of man's life.

Artificial Intelligence is creating a mind, hopefully as pure a mind as possible, for a computer.