Philosophy Quotes

When lost in a forest go always down hill. When lost in a philosophy or doctrine go upward.

Ambrose Bierce

But the need for conflict to expose prejudice and unclear reasoning, which is deeply embedded in my philosophy of science, has its origin in these debates.

Robert B. Laughlin

It is not that accepting and rejecting are great actions within themselves. But the right to accept or reject, now that is everything.

Joshua Emmet

The most important thing I gained from my travels was the knowledge that one could achieve anything with determination and an ounce of luck.

Stefan Waydenfeld

I believe that the imagination is the passport we create to take us into the real world. I believe the imagination is another phrase for what is most uniquely us.

John Guare

Imagination is cheap as long as you don't have to worry about the details.

Daniel C. Dennett

I think, therefore a single fertilized egg cell can replicate itself into trillions of specialized and exquisitely organized cells.

David Self

Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.

Imre Lakatos

The pursuit of truth, not of facts, is the business of fiction.

Oakley Hall

There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.

Thomas Jefferson

We are the lucky ones for we shall die, as there is an infinite number of possible forms of DNA all but a few billions of which will never burst into consciousness.

Frank Close

So many other planets

David Self

Of course, supernatural acts are what miracles are all about. They are, after all, precisely those things that circumvent the laws of nature. A god who can create the laws of nature can presumably also circumvent them at will. Although why they would have been circumvented so liberally thousands of years ago, before the invention of modern communication instruments that could have recorded them, and not today, is still something to wonder about.

Lawrence M. Krauss

Be happy, be happy; you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own heart's-blood. All that I ask of you in return is that you will be a true lover, for Love is wiser than Philosophy, though she is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty.

Oscar Wilde

It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.

Thomas Malthus

Simplicity, patience, compassion.These three are your greatest treasures.Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.Patient with both friends and enemies,you accord with the way things are.Compassionate toward yourself,you reconcile all beings in the world.

Lao Tzu

Three metamorphoses of the spirit have I designated to you: how thespirit became a camel, the camel a lion, and the lion at last a child.

Friedrich Nietzsche

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Einstein's theory, experimentally corroborated for the last hundred years, regardless of how outlandish and opposed to our prejudices (disguised as they are with the 'common sense' costume), is rational, consistent, and intelligible to the layperson - if s/he has the audacity of accepting the unfounded nature of those prejudices.

Felix Alba-Juez

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age

Isaac Newton