Philosophy Quotes

"The hereditary laws remind us that we are participants in a drama far larger than ourselves."

"Memory is the most sensitive and selective of our mental faculties."

"The study of nature teaches us that nothing stands alone."

"I have deliberately shut my eyes and ears to every sort of evidence against materialism."

"Every variety of philosophical and theological opinion was represented there."

"The question of questions for mankind is the problem of man's place in nature."

"Upon this showing, what becomes of the great Occam's razor?"

"The foundation of theology is to ascertain the character of God. It is by the aid of History that this can be effected."

"Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack."

"A man may be defined as an animal that makes discoveries."

"Orthodoxy is the Bourbon of the world of thought."

"The only justification for our concepts and systems is that they serve to interpret the collection of our experiences."

"Men believe what they wish to believe."

"Agnosticism is not a creed but a method."

"Every living thing has its place in the grand system of creation."

"To classify is to understand the mind of the Creator."

"The world is a book written in the language of creation."

"In studying nature, we study ourselves."

"The scientist is a discoverer, not a creator."

"Every classification is a story of connection."

"To understand nature is to understand our place in it."

"To classify living things is to read the mind of creation."

"The structure of life mirrors the structure of thought."

"Each creature is a word in nature's great language."

"Every organism is both unique and part of a larger whole."

"The work of understanding is the work of love."

"In seeking to name all things, we seek to know ourselves."

"Nature's diversity is but the expression of fundamental unity."

"To study nature is to study the mind of creation itself."

"Extinction is not failure but nature's way of revision."