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Quotes About Philosophy

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.
~ Stephen Hawking
In a mathematical proposition, for example, the objectivity is given, but therefore its truth is also an indifferent truth.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
There is something in man which your science cannot satisfy.
~ Thomas Carlyle
The science of a religious man must be scientific; the religion of a scientific man must be religious.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
Doing science is not inherently incompatible with religious faith.
~ George Coyne
I believe in science but I also believe in fate.
~ Gao Xingjian
Because we [people] have an intellect, part of what we do is try to understand the "intelligent design." Everything we don't know is "intelligent design." Everything we do know is science.
~ George Lucas
No man can run up the natural line of Evolution without coming to Christianity at the top.
~ William Henry Drummond
Do not say hypothesis, and even less theory: say way of thinking.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
A metaphysical conclusion is either a false conclusion or a concealed experimental conclusion.
~ Hermann von Helmholtz
The Biblical worldview is not given to us in the discursive and analytical language of philosophy and science, but in rich and compact language of symbolism and art.
~ James Jordan
The universe has no sides, no end, can't be mapped. Enough to make a man talk about God, make a man superstitious and worship an idol. The science never gets as far as the strangeness.
~ Jeanette Winterson
If you have science and art, You also have religion; But if you don't have them, You better have religion.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If science were communism, was it also not possible that communism could itself become a science?
~ John Desmond Bernal
Without the English, reason and philosophy would still be in the most despicable infancy in France.
~ John Dewey
The moment philosophy supposes it can find a final and comprehensive solution, it ceases to be inquiry and becomes either apologetics or propaganda.
~ John Dewey
In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not...
~ Bill Gates
One must divide one's time between politics and equations. But our equations are much more important to me, because politics is for the present, while our equations are for eternity.
~ Albert Einstein
What place, then, for a creator?
~ Stephen Hawking
There are more things in heaven and earth...than are dreamt of by your philosophy.
~ William Shakespeare, Hamlet
There is more things in heaven and earth...than are dreamt of by your philosophy.
~ William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomèd mine—Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile madeThe tender-person'd Lamia melt into a shade
~ John Keats, Lamia
I assert nothing, I content myself with believing that more is possible than people think.
~ Voltaire, Micromegas