Philosophy Quotes

It is not the reverence for words, but for their that determines our deepness of comprehension of a given assertion about Nature.

Felix Alba-Juez

Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy

William Shakespeare

If your treated like a puppet find a new ball of string

Benny Bellamacina

What I have done is to show that it is possible for the way the universe began to be determined by the laws of science. In that case, it would not be necessary to appeal to God to decide how the universe began. This doesn't prove that there is no God, only that God is not necessary.

Stephen Hawking

Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.

H.L. Mencken

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

Will Durant

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

Nikola Tesla

When they have discovered truth in nature they fling it into a book, where it is even worse hands.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Evolutionism is a religious world view that is not supported by science, Scripture, popular opinion, or common sense. The exclusive teaching of this dangerous, mind-altering philosophy in tax supported schools, parks, museums, etc. is a clear violation of the First Amendment.

Kent Hovind

The universe danced towards life. Life was a remarkably common commodity. Anything sufficiently complicated seemed to get cut in for some, in the same way that anything massive enough got a generous helping of gravity. The universe had a definite tendency towards awareness. This suggested a certain subtle cruelty woven into the very fabric of space-time.

Terry Pratchett

Thanks to the high standing which science has for so long attain and to the impartiality of the Nobel Prize Committee, the Nobel Prize for Physics is rightly considered everywhere as the highest reward within the reach of workers in Natural Philosophy.

Guglielmo Marconi

From whichever side I start, I think I am in an old place where others have been before me.

Dejan Stojanovic

Always Remember: He Can Do! She Can Do! Why Not Me?!

Tae Yun Kim

That which is now called natural philosophy, embracing the whole circle of science, of which astronomy occupies the chief place, is the study of the works of God, and of the power and wisdom of God in his works, and is the true theology.

Thomas Paine

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

Leonardo da Vinci

Was I insane? Maybe. But then, there were many different kinds of insanity. Aunt Rose had always taken for granted that the whole world was in a state of constantly fluctuating madness, and that a neurosis was not an illness, but a fact of life, like pimples. Some have more, some have less, but only truly abnormal people have none at all. This commonsense philosophy had consoled me many times before, and it did now, too.

Anne Fortier

Modest doubt is call'd the beacon of the wise.

William Shakespeare

To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Hard science gives sensational results with a horribly boring process; philosophy gives boring results with a sensational process; literature gives sensational results with a sensational process; and economics gives boring results with a boring process.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin