Philosophy Quotes

"Every man who has thought deeply about existence recognizes that it is a kind of mystery."

"The man does not belong to himself, but to the law of the universe."

"Writing the name of a thing is like a murder—a sacrilege."

"It is very important that a person should develop great ideas about life."

"An unbridgeable gulf separates subjective emotional experiences from the formulations of physical science."

"The problem lies not in the physics but in the philosophy."

"The study of atoms reveals the unity underlying all creation."

"I believe that science and philosophy should walk together hand in hand."

"In chemistry, as in life, everything is connected to everything else."

"I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato. In fact the smallest units of matter are not physical objects in the ordinary sense; they are forms, ideas which can be expressed unambiguously only in mathematical language."

"I think that the structure of the physical world is rational."

"The alternative to Cartesian dualism is not materialism, but rather a different understanding of matter and mind."

"The positivists have a simple solution: the world must be divided into that which we can say clearly and the rest, which we must pass over in silence."

"What is the world made of? We have found that it is not made of material substance. The stuff of the world is mind-stuff."

"The methods of natural science cannot answer the questions of human values and human meaning."

"The mind that is certain is a mind that has stopped growing."

"Our understanding of matter is but a shadow on the cave wall of reality."

"The philosopher and the scientist are not opposites; they are partners in wonder."

"The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and godlike technology."

"The apparent contradiction between the enormity of the universe and the tininess of man is resolved in the fact that man is the only means by which the universe comes to know itself."

"The greatest challenge is not in understanding the universe, but in understanding why humans are so often irrational."

"The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent."

"Every paradox contains within it the seeds of a profound truth."

"The grandeur of the universe is matched only by our capacity to comprehend it."

"I am not interested in the philosophy of science; I am interested in the practice of it."

"Science is the conversation between the human mind and the natural world."

"The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions."

"Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real."

"We are suspended in language in such a way that we cannot say what is up and what is down."

"The human mind is both the tool and the subject of physics."