Quotes About Philosophy

I'm not a big theory person. So when I get asked questions that demand serious statements, I just make it up.

The classical theory of omniscient rationality is strikingly simple and beautiful.

There is no complete theory of anything.

No theory changes what it is a theory about; man remains what he has always been.

My theory is if you have a religion, it's a good one. Because some people don't have any at all.

I think simplicity is a good guide: The more economical a theory, the better.

Now the truth of the matter is that there are a lot of things people don't understand. Take the Einstein theory. Take taxes. Take love. Do you understand them? Neither do I. But they exist. They happen.

I once did a radio program with a famous materialist, that is to say a scientist who believed that absolutely everything was physical and that all emotions were reductive to little electrical impulses in your neurons. And I found that I didn't believe that. But what the emotions really are, I don't have an alternative theory.

The oldest theory of art belongs to the Greeks, who regarded art as an imitation (mimesis) of reality. The strength of that theory is that it explains the way in which art takes its materials from real life.

They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another;' a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory.

Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism.

In this movement of colors I find the essence, which does not arise from a system, or an a priori theory.

I had some hesitations about philosophy because, if you worked out a philosophical theory, it was hard to know whether you were going to be able to prove it or whether other theories had just as good a claim on belief.

I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.

You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true.

If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again.

The Omega Point Theory can be a solid foundation of support for all of the great human religions.

I've got this theory that human beings are innately religious; we have a belief system. It doesn't have to be a theist form, necessarily. But we need a belief system, some framework on which to hang our behavior.

There are values of humanity, culture, beauty, community that may require deviations from the cold logic of market theory.

There certainly is a tension between the relativity of simultaneity and non-locality in quantum theory, but it's not strong enough to add up to a falsification of either side by itself.

If you take Darwin's theory and extend it to its logical end, it can be used to justify a number of very horrendous things.

Very much, string theory is simply a work in progress. What we are inching toward every day are predictions that within the realm of current technology we hope to test. It's not like we're working on a theory that is permanently beyond experiment. That would be philosophy.

I earned my Ph.D. in philosophy, and one of my specializations was the logic and mathematics of game theory. I've also got a degree in drama, so I know about stories, characterizations, plot arcs, and the like. Lots of game designers can do one or the other: I've got the skills for both.

Adam Smith is misread as being amoral precisely because people don't read his first book, because they don't read 'The Theory of Moral Sentiments.'