Top 1200 Philosophy Of Science Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

An enormous amount of modern ingenuity is expended on finding defences for the indefensible conduct of the powerful. As I have said above, these defences generally exhibit themselves most emphatically in the form of appeals to physical science. And of all the forms in which science, or pseudo-science, has come to the rescue of the rich and stupid, there is none so singular as the singular invention of the theory of races.

I got really involved in science research and the science of meditation.

We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.

I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up all things in a phrase, all existence in an epigram: whatever I touched I made beautiful

There is no such thing as applied science, only the application of pure science.

I love science, and I believe in it. I have a faith that science can solve problems and make the world a better place.

Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.

I love the writing of Walter Tevis and what he views as the possibilities of science rather than science fiction.

Belief has no place as far as science reaches, and may be first permitted to take root where science stops.

I want to be a science teacher. My friends asked me why, but I'm intrigued by it and I'm quite good at science at school.

In student government in high school, I learned how to deal with people, and in college I studied Eastern philosophy. I'm also an avid team-sports fan. I think I just blended them all together and came out with a business management philosophy that combines the Eastern ethic with the Western sport concept, basically.

I can be a bit of a science geek. I tend more towards reading about brain science, neuroscience.

I'm interested in the hope we invest in science, and the disappointment we can feel when science flattens, or 'explains,' the larger mysteries of religion.

And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy.

We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.

Understanding is, after all, what science is all about — and science is a great deal more than mindless computation.

Science is definitely part of America's infrastructure, the engine of prosperity. And yet science is given almost no visibility in the media.

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

Textbook science is beautiful! Textbook science is comprehensible, unlike mere fascinating words that can never be truly beautiful. Elementary science textbooks describe simple theories, and simplicity is the core of scientific beauty. Fascinating words have no power, nor yet any meaning, without the math.

The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value.

Myths are about the human struggle to deal with the great passages of time and life--birth, death, marriage, the transitions from childhood to adulthood to old age. They meet a need in the psychological or spiritual nature of humans that has absolutely nothing to do with science. To try to turn a myth into a science, or a science into a myth, is an insult to myths, an insult to religion, and an insult to science. In attempting to do this, creationists have missed the significance, meaning, and sublime nature of myths. They took a beautiful story of creation and re-creation and ruined it.

We need a moral philosophy which can speak significantly of Freud and Marx and out of which aesthetic and political views can be generated. We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now, can once again be made central.

Science is the best thing humans beings have ever come up with. And if it isn't, science will fix it.

The science of government is only a science of combinations, of applications, and of exceptions, according to times, places and circumstances.

The doubter is a true man of science: he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science.

You like science? You enjoy science? Always use it for good, never for evil. Can you promise me that?

The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our whole philosophy, not our whole philosophy on a feeling.

Science is about nothing but getting at the truth, and anything that gets in the way of that diminishes, in my experience, the science.

Modern man worships at the temple of science, but science tells him only what is possible, not what is right.

If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change. In my view, science and Buddhism share a search for the truth and for understanding reality. By learning from science about aspects of reality where its understanding may be more advanced, I believe that Buddhism enriches its own worldview.

When science and the Bible differ, science has obviously misinterpreted its data.

What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values.

I think British science is becoming more like American science - and then there is everybody else, I'm afraid.

Ahimsa is a science. The word 'failure' has no place in the vocabulary of science.

Science is the only thing that disproves science, and it does it all the time.

Philosophy isn't reading Emmanuel Kant. Philosophy is about thinking hard about what the right thing to do is in a situation and approaching that kind of question in an open-minded and open-hearted way, receptive to a broad range of considerations and interests of other people and other things.

My philosophy is fundamentally sad, but I’m not a sad man, and I don’t believe I sadden anyone else. In other words, the fact that I don’t put my philosophy into practice saves me from its evil spell, or, rather, my faith in the human race is stronger then my intellectual analysis of it; there lies the fountain of youth in which my heart is continually bathing.

The language of science—and especially of a science of man—is, necessarily, anti-individualistic, and hence a threat to human freedom and dignity.

The method of science, as stodgy and grumpy as it may seem, is far more important than the findings of science.

A lot of science started off as magic, where people were burned at the stake for doing science basically.

You must fully understand, strongly believe in, and be totally committed to your trading philosophy. In order to achieve that mental state, you have to do a great deal of independent research. A trading philosophy is something that cannot just be transferred from one person to another; it's something that you have to acquire yourself through time and effort.

Everybody allows that to know any other science you must have first studied it, and that you can only claim to express a judgment upon it in virtue of such knowledge. Everybody allows that to make a shoe you must have learned and practised the craft of the shoemaker, though every man has a model in his own foot, and possesses in his hands the natural endowments for the operations required. For philosophy alone, it seems to be imagined, such study, care, and application are not in the least requisite

Above all else, philosophy ought to aim for clarification - of the self, one's place in the world, and the ways we make meaning. Philosophy, when practiced well, can be useful. It can enable us to grapple in productive ways with questions about the meaning of life and who I am and how I want to be in the world.

The work of a science blogger is largely comprised of correcting and criticizing bad science news reporting.

Painting is a science pursued as an enquiry into the laws of nature...Observation is considered the key to natural science.

Receiving the National Medal of Science is the thrill of a lifetime, but good science does not happen in isolation.

Economics never was a dismal science. It should be a realistic science.

I happen to hold a bachelor of science degree in geology... And my greatest contribution to the field of science is that I never entered it.

Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.

'Fringe' is one of my favorite television shows, from its inception. I absolutely love all of the science fiction of it, the mystery of it, and the science in it.

The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle, leaving only the details to be filled in.

At the heart of science is experimentation. Science doesn't care what you think. What's important is experimenting and actually working stuff out.

If I had a religious experience, what I know for sure is that I would stop doing philosophy and would start doing religion, teaching classes in religion, preaching in a local church. That is fine and noble activity. But I do not feel entitled to engage in it. So for me philosophy is my fate.

I do not pretend that language is science. It isan instrument for the attainment of science.

The politics is far harder than the science. And even if we accept the science we have a big issue of how to deal with it.

Science doesn't purvey absolute truth. Science is a mechanism... for testing your thoughts against the universe.

In science, the best precept is to alter and exchange our ideas as fast as science moves ahead.

The science of loving, yes, that's the only kind of science I want I'd barter away everything I possess to win it.

The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.

I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.