Quotes About Philosophy

a study of patients undergoing awake brain surgery found that by electrically stimulating the appropriate regions of the brain, one could create in the patient the desire to move the hand, arm, or foot, or to move the lips and talk. It is hard to imagine how free will can operate if our behavior is determined by physical law, so it seems that we are no more than biological machines and that free will is just an illusion.

In effect, God was confined to the areas that nineteenth-century science did not understand.

In Britain, people don't seem too worried about a possible end twenty billion years in the future. You can do quite a lot of eating, drinking and being merry before that.

If the theory is confirmed by observation, it will be the successful conclusion of a search going back more than 3,000 years. We will have found the grand design.

Why is there something rather than nothing? Why do we exist? Why this particular set of laws and not some other? This is the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. We shall attempt to answer it in this book. Unlike the answer given in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, ours won't be simply "42."  

There is no picture- or theory-independent concept of reality.

If nature is governed by laws, three questions arise: What is the origin of the laws? Are there any exceptions to the laws, i.e., miracles? Is there only one set of possible laws?

What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?

The success of A Brief History indicates that there is widespread interest in the big questions like: Where did we come from? And why is the universe the way it is?

philosopher of science Karl Popper has emphasized, a good theory is characterized by the fact that it makes a number of predictions that could in principle be disproved or falsified by observation. Each time new experiments are observed to agree with the predictions, the theory survives and our confidence in it is increased; but if ever a new observation is found to disagree, we have to abandon or modify the theory.

If you like, you can say that the laws [of nature] are the work of God, but that is more a definition of God than a proof of his existence.

So what does this mean in our quest to find out if there is a God? It means that if the universe adds up to nothing, then you don't need a God to create it. The universe is the ultimate free lunch.

How do we know that we are not just characters in a computer-generated soap opera?

Como veremos, o conceito de tempo não tem significado antes do início do universo. Isso foi observado pela primeira vez por santo Agostinho. Quando lhe perguntavam "O que Deus fazia antes de criar o universo?", sua resposta não era "Ele estava preparando o inferno para pessoas que fizessem perguntas como essa". Em vez disso, respondia que o tempo era uma propriedade do universo criada por Deus e não existia antes dele. Quando

The basic assumption of science is scientific determinism.

Yet if there really is a complete unified theory, it would also presumably determine our actions. And so the theory itself would determine the outcome of our search for it! And

Kebenaran abadi, juga kenyamanan yang ditemukan dalam gagasan bahwa walau manusia menua dan mati, alam semesta kekal dan tak berubah.

Apa yang Tuhan lakukan sebelum Dia menciptakan alam semesta? Agustinus tak menjawab: Dia mempersiapkan Neraka untuk orang-orang yang bertanya seperti itu. Dia malah mengatakan bahwa waktu adalah bagian alam semesta yang Tuhan ciptakan, dan waktu tidak ada sebelum permulaan alam semesta.

There is no God. No-one directs the universe.

Teori hanya ada dalam akal budi kita dan tak punya realitas lain.

Beberapa orang merasa bahwa sains seharusnya hanya membahas bagian permulaan; mereka menganggap persoalan keadaan alam adalah urusan metafisika atau agama. Mereka berkata bahwa Tuhan yang Mahakuasa dapat memulai alam semesta dengan cara apa pun yang Dia mau.

As I was growing up in England after the Second World War, it was a time of austerity. We were told that you never get something for nothing. But now, after a lifetime of work, I think that actually you can get a whole universe for free.

People asked a computer, "Is there a God?" And the computer said, "There is now," and fused the plug.

Ne f?urim concepte mentale despre c?minul nostru, despre copaci, despre al?i oameni, despre electricitatea care curge din prize, despre atomi, molecule ?i alte universuri. Aceste concepte mentale sunt singura realitate pe care o cunoa?tem.