Top 1200 Philosophy Of Science Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Science is expanding, and with it our vision of the universe. although this new and constantly changing view may not always give us comfort, it does have the virtue of truth according to our most effective resources for acquiring knowledge. No philosophy, moral outlook, or religion can be inconsistent with the findings of science and hope to endure among educated people.

The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful. The surest way to end them is to establish beyond question what should be the purpose and method of a philosophical enquiry. And this is by no means so difficult a task as the history of philosophy would lead one to suppose. For if there are any questions which science leaves it to philosophy to answer, a straightforward process of elimination must lead to their discovery.

Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy.

Subjective reason ... is inclined to abandon the fight with religion by setting up two different brackets, one for science and philosophy, and one for institutionalized mythology, thus recognizing both of them. For the philosophy of objective reason there is no such way out. Since it hold to the concept of objective truth, it must take a positive or a negative stand with regard to the content of established religion.

In the Art, Science, Philosophy and Mystic rests the temple of Wisdom.

Geometry is one of the handles of science and philosophy.

For myself, I am interested in science and in philosophy only because I want to learn something about the riddle of the world in which we live, and the riddle of man's knowledge of that world. And I believe that only a revival of interest in these riddles can save the sciences and philosophy from an obscurantist faith in the expert's special skill and in his personal knowledge and authority.

Science itself is badly in need of integration and unification. The tendency is more and more the other way ... Only the graduate student, poor beast of burden that he is, can be expected to know a little of each. As the number of physicists increases, each specialty becomes more self-sustaining and self-contained. Such Balkanization carries physics, and indeed, every science further away, from natural philosophy, which, intellectually, is the meaning and goal of science.

I conceive of nothing, in religion, science or philosophy, that is more than the proper thing to wear, for a while.

Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions.

In the history and literature courses I took, epistemological questions came to interest me most. What makes one explanation of the French Revolution better than another? What makes one interpretation of "Waiting for Godot" better than another? These questions led me to philosophy and then to philosophy of science.

Philosophy, like science, consists of theories or insights arrived at as a result of systemic reflection or reasoning in regard to the data of experience. It involves, therefore, the analysis of experience and the synthesis of the results of analysis into a comprehensive or unitary conception. Philosophy seeks a totality and harmony of reasoned insight into the nature and meaning of all the principal aspects of reality.

All we know of science or of religion comes from philosophy. It lies behind and above all other knowledge we have or use.

In mathematics and science we solve our problems as well as create them. But in art and philosophy things are not so simple.

Whatever science and philosophy may do for mankind, the world can never outgrow its need of the simplicity that is in Christ.

Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.

...there ... remains a huge following [of Ayn Rand's philosophy] of those who ignore the indiscretions, infidelities, and moral inconsistencies of the founder and focus instead on the positive aspects of her philosophy. There is much in it to admire, if you do not have to accept the whole package... Criticism of the founder or followers of a philosophy does not, by itself, constitute a negation of any part of the philosophy... Criticism of part of a philosophy does not gainsay the whole.

In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination.

What generates war is the economic philosophy of nationalism: embargoes, trade and foreign exchange controls, monetary devaluation, etc. The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.

Science fiction tends to be philosophy for stupid people.

I was in college, and I studied everything, but was really not good at anything until I found philosophy, and, then, political science. I thought, 'Wow, this is something I really enjoy.' I kind of got into that whole world of law and political science. I was really into it and enjoying it, and then I took an acting elective, and that was it.

It's progress I think, that science has joined philosophy, metaphysics & religion as subjects drunk people argue about in bars.

Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science].

Philosophy is the true mother of science.

Induction is the glory of science and the scandal of philosophy.

Philosophy is to science as masturbation is to sex.

Every day, I read books on philosophy and science fiction and human consciousness.

It is not clear to anyone, least of all the practitioners, how science and technology in their headlong course do or should influence ethics and law, education and government, art and social philosophy, religion and the life of the affections. Yet science is an all-pervasive energy, for it is at once a mode of thought, a source of strong emotion, and a faith as fanatical as any in history.

I thought I would go into philosophy and political science.

You can't do science in a novel, but you can do philosophy. Or, if you're really lucky, you can manage to pose a question in such a way that other people will take it on.

Science never makes an advance until philosophy authorizes it to do so.

I have long been an ardent believer in the science of Homeopathy and I feel happy that it has got now a greater hold in India than even in the land of its origin. It is not merely a collection of a few medicines but a real science with a rational philosophy at its base. We require more scientific interest and inquiry into the matter with special stress upon the Indian environment

It's something that's very often said that philosophy, as opposed to science, never makes any progress.

Science, philosophy and religion are bound to converge as they draw nearer to the whole.

The poet uses the results of science and philosophy, and generalizes their widest deductions.

I'd love to go back to school for philosophy. I love philosophy, so I'm always reading philosophy books, annoying my girlfriend with that type of stuff.

We are lucky in the United States to have our liberal arts system. In most countries, if you go to university, you have to decide for all English literature or no literature, all philosophy or no philosophy. But we have a system that is one part general education and one part specialization. If your parents say you've got to major in computer science, you can do that. But you can also take general education courses in the humanities, and usually you have to.

Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.

If you ask what my philosophy is, my philosophy is kind of like an entrepreneurial philosophy.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

Philosophy stands in need of a science which shall determine the possibility, principles, and extent of human knowledge à priori.

There are two kinds of science: The black science and the white science. The science of weapon production is the black one. Working in this category of science is a great betrayal to humanity!

The science of love is the philosophy of the heart

Philosophy was once considered science.

Philosophy is the science which considers truth.

What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises, others make the decision.

Science repudiates philosophy. In other words, it has never cared to justify its truth or explain its meaning.

The progress of science requires the growth of understanding in both directions, downward from the whole to the parts and upward from the parts to the whole. A reductionist philosophy, arbitrarily proclaiming that the growth of understanding must go only in one direction, makes no scientific sense. Indeed, dogmatic philosophical beliefs of any kind have no place in science.

Science and knowledge, especially that of philosophy, came from the Arabs into the West.

Environmental philosophy just is philosophy full stop. It only sprung up as distinct subfield because mainstream philosophy was ignoring some of the most important philosophical challenges of our time.

You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.

When one begins to reflect on philosophy—then philosophy seems to us to be everything, like God, and love. It is a mystical, highly potent, penetrating idea—which ceaselessly drives us inward in all directions. The decision to do philosophy—to seek philosophy is the act of self-liberation—the thrust toward ourselves.

It is within science itself, and not in some prior philosophy, that reality is to be identified and described.

Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science.

I'm a geophysicist who has conducted and published climate studies in top-rank scientific journals. My perspective on Mr. Inhofe and the issue of global warming is informed not only by my knowledge of climate science but also by my studies of the history and philosophy of science.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.

The Sun Stone, the famous Aztec calendar, is unquestionably a perfect summary of science, philosophy, art and religion.

Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.

Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science.