Philosophy Quotes

"I believe science should challenge assumptions, not reinforce them."

"The universe speaks most clearly to those who listen with their whole being."

"The universe reminds us that we are both infinitely small and infinitely significant."

"The cosmos reminds us that we are part of an ongoing conversation."

"The universe reminds us that we are all connected across time and space."

"I want you to learn that everything in life has a purpose."

"Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good."

"The fact that Gödel's theorem applies to the systems which we can conceive does not of course settle the question as to the nature of the human mind."

"In the period up to 30 June 1954, the reader is invited to contemplate the variety of machines which have been evolved and the curiosity of their purpose."

"The original question 'Can machines think?' I believe is too meaningless to deserve discussion."

"It may be that to construct a thinking machine is in itself a contradictory notion."

"The view that machine may think appears to me harmless and to not materially affected by fallacies in the philosophical arguments by which it is supported."

"The idea that artificial intelligence is possible seems to be opposed to the idea that machines cannot think."

"I am not very impressed by 'theological' arguments whatever they may be used to support."

"I want to avoid both the excessive spiritualism of the 'pure mathematician' and the excessive materialism of the 'practical man'."

"I consider the question 'Can machines think?' to be too meaningless to deserve discussion."

"I have something I want to say. I have always hated machinery."

"Machines can follow rules, but they cannot have real understanding without consciousness."

"But at what point does the resemblance between the output of the machine and that of the brain end?"

"The view that machines cannot think is quite popular among philosophers."

"Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition."

"We are not truly civilized if we concern ourselves only with the relation of man to man. What of man's relation to the rest of nature?"

"There is a universal principle that connects all things to all other things."

"The most important thing is to live in accordance with nature."

"The study of astronomy is ultimately the study of ourselves and our place in the cosmos."

"Every observation is a conversation between the observer and the observed."

"I believe that wonder and rigor are not opposites; they are partners in the scientific process."

"We are not separate from nature; we are nature becoming conscious of itself."

"We need a new metaphor for life that emphasizes wholeness rather than parts."

"The boundaries between self and other, between organisms, are far more permeable than we once thought."