Top 1200 Philosophy Of Science Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

Real science can be far stranger than science fiction and much more satisfying.

Much of good science and perhaps all of great science has its roots in fantasy.

I have begun to feel that there is a tendency in 20th Century science to forget that there will be a 21st Century science, and indeed a 30th Century science, from which vantage points our knowledge of the universe may appear quite different than it does to us. We suffer, perhaps, from temporal provincialism, a form of arrogance that has always irritated posterity.

Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.

Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.

Belief cannot be reckoned with in terms of science, for science and faith are mutually exclusive.

Science in textbooks is not fun. But if you start doing science yourself, you will find delight.

When your science runs into a policy roadblock, all of a sudden the science starts to disappear.

I'm not an academic, but I'm someone who has a great passion for science and wants to convey the idea that science is for everyone.

You can believe what you want religiously. Religion is one thing, but science, provable science, is something else.

I'm a seeker. I'm very much a believer in science. But I do think there are times when science and mysticism intersect.

You can't rush the science, but when the science points you in the right direction, then you can start rushing.

Wikipedia was a big help for science, especially science communication, and it shows no sign of diminishing in importance.

I am not sure just what Marx had in mind when he wrote that "philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it." Did he mean that philosophy could change the world, or that philosophers should turn to the higher priority of changing the world? If the former, then he presumably meant philosophy in a broad sense of the term, including analysis of the social order and ideas about why it should be changed, and how. In that broad sense, philosophy can play a role, indeed an essential role, in changing the world.

A little science estranges a man from God; a lot of science brings him back.

In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.

Networked science has the potential to speed up dramatically the rate of discovery across all of science.

The central moral issue of science is that we do not have a science of peace and hardly know where to begin in building one.

From cradle to grave this problem of running order through chaos, direction through space, discipline through freedom, unity through multiplicity, has always been, and must always be, the task of education, as it is the moral of religion, philosophy, science, art, politics and economy; but a boy's will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming tame.

Science and religion are both the same thing. They're there; they're life. If it's not science, it's not a fact.

The 'science' in 'science fiction' isn't just physics and engineering. It can also be linguistics, anthropology, and psychology.

Yes, I do not like people saying that atheism is based on science, because it's not. It's an alien invasion of science.

First study the science, and then practice the art which is born of that science.

I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.

Postwar U.S. was the world's leader in science and technology. The investment in science research was staggering.

The science of psychiatry is now where the science of medicine was before germs were discovered.

I'm not a magician. I'am an alchemyst, a man of science, though perhaps not the science you would be familiar with.

Science and religion are in full accord, but science and faith are in complete discord.

We who cherish science should be careful to distinguish when we are doing science and when we are extrapolating from it

In one of the most brilliant papers in the English language Hume made it clear that what we speak of as 'causality' is nothing more than the phenomenon of repetition. When we mix sulphur with saltpeter and charcoal we always get gunpowder. This is true of every event subsumed by a causal law in other words, everything which can be called scientific knowledge. "It is custom which rules ," Hume said, and in that one sentence undermined both science and philosophy .

Not all complex problems have easy solutions; so says science (so warns science.)

Science is science, but a girl MUST get her hair done.

Any belief in miracles is flat contradictory not just to the facts of science but to the spirit of science.

Morality must be the heart of our existence, if it is to be what it wants to be for us. The highest form of philosophy is ethics. Thus all philosophy begins with "I am." The highest statement of cognition must be an expression of that fact which is the means and ground for all cognition, namely, the goal of the I.

Science was blamed for all the horrors of World War I, just as it's blamed today for nuclear weapons and quite rightly. I mean World War I was a horrible war and it was mostly the fault of science, so that was in a way a very bad time for science, but on the other hand we were winning all these Nobel Prizes.

Geology, perhaps more than any other department of natural philosophy, is a science of contemplation. It requires no experience or complicated apparatus, no minute processes upon the unknown processes of matter. It demands only an enquiring mind and senses alive to the facts almost everywhere presented in nature. And as it may be acquired without much difficulty, so it may be improved without much painful exertion.

I like to think of it as this new field. Instead of computer science, it's going to be virtual science.

In a science fiction film, you're uniquely responsible to pay respect to the science represented in the movie.

The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract.

And nowadays, the idea of AI is not really science fiction anymore - it's just science fact.

If, in the course of a thousand or two thousand years, science arrives at the necessity of renewing its points of view, that will not mean that science is a liar. Science cannot lie, for it's always striving, according to the momentary state of knowledge, to deduce what is true. When it makes a mistake, it does so in good faith. It's Christianity that's the liar. It's in perpetual conflict with itself.

As ideas are preserved and communicated by means of words, it necessarily follows that we cannot improve the language of any science, without at the same time improving the science itself; neither can we, on the other hand, improve a science without improving the language or nomenclature which belongs to it.

[There is] one distinctly human thing - the story. There can be as good science about a turnip as about a man. ... [Or philosophy, or theology] ...There can be, without any question at all, as good higher mathematics about a turnip as about a man. But I do not think, though I speak in a manner somewhat tentative, that there could be as good a novel written about a turnip as a man.

I'm a big believer that science is part of a larger cultural thing. Science is not all by itself.

The influence of a science adviser is only as good as ears open to that science advice.

My message to the Americans is the same as to everyone - that is to unite behind the science and to act on the science.

I’m going to argue here that the most accurate and least muddled way to think of permaculture is as a design approach, and that we are often misdirected by the fact that it fits into a larger philosophy and movement which it supports. But it is not that philosophy or movement. It is a design approach for realizing a new paradigm.

Science is the key to our future, and if you don't believe in science, then you're holding everybody back.

So here's my theory, and this is such crap science, I don't have to tell you. It's science without microscopes, blood tests, or reality.

I believe in science. We're going to bring back science to the state of Wisconsin.

What man needs is not philosophy or religion in the academic or formalistic sense of the term, but ability to think rightly. The malady of the age is not absence of philosophy or even irreligion but wrong thinking and a vanity which passes for knowledge. Though it is difficult to define right thinking, it cannot be denied that it is the goal of the aspirations of everyone.

Brain science will be the most popular science of the early twenty-first century.

In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.

In college, I was dead set on being a philosophy major, because I wanted to figure out the meaning of life. Four years later I realized philosophy had really nothing to say about the meaning of life, and psychology and literature are really where it's at.

A history of civilization shares the presumptuousness of every philosophical enterprise: it offers the ridiculous spectacle of a fragment expounding the whole. Like philosophy, such a venture has no rational excuse, and is at best but a brave stupidity; but let us hope that, like philosophy, it will always lure some rash spirits into its fatal depths.

A touch of science, even bogus science, gives an edge to the superstitious tale.

Whatever sphere of the human mind you may select for your special study, whether it be language, or religion, or mythology, or philosophy, whether it be laws or customs, primitive art or primitive science, everywhere, you have to go to India, whether you like it or not, because some of the most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India, and in India only.

I would like to undermine the stereotype of "strict philosophy." J.L. Austin remarked that, when philosophy is done well, it's all over by the bottom of the first page. I take him to have meant that the real work comes in setting up the problem with which you are dealing, and thus getting your reader to take particular things for granted.

I was always into science fiction as a kid. I loved science and tinkering with things.

A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity