Philosophy Quotes

"All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct."

"There is a gulf of mutual incomprehension between science and the humanities."

"All things considered, I believe that the universe is probably best described by saying that it is weird."

"We live in a very complex world with many ways of knowing."

"The size and age of the world must be taken into account when we are trying to understand it."

"Humans are not the end result of predictable evolutionary progress."

"We are infinitesimal parts of an incomprehensibly vast cosmos."

"Randomness and determinism are not opposites but dance partners."

"The universe is not designed with human welfare in mind."

"We are part of nature, not separate from it."

"The universe is indifferent to our desires and aspirations."

"We cannot solve the environmental crisis without solving the crisis within ourselves."

"We are all connected in ways we are only beginning to understand."

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

"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to prevent oneself from being deserted in the street by all one's acquaintances."

"The paradoxes of logic and set theory, which have so troubled the mathematicians, find their solution in the fact that the axioms of formal logic are not applicable to reality."

"Just as in a theatrical play one is moved by fictitious joys and sorrows, so too in actual life one is concerned with fictions."

"An independent reality in the physical sense is an unwarranted causality."

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

"We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry."

"The great difference between science and philosophy is that science asks questions it can answer, while philosophy asks questions it cannot."

"Those who attempt to found a system of philosophy without having mastered mathematics are lost."

"We cannot know, as a matter of principle, the present in all its details."

"If you have not yet discovered paradoxes in nature, you have not yet begun to think deeply."

"To develop a system of values, you must think hard about what you really care about."

"The real problem is that the way we think about the world is wrong."

"What is it about nature that lets it work so simply?"

"I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness."

"The study of physics will always involve a certain amount of philosophy and metaphysical thinking."

"A physicist looks at the world not as it appears to be, but as it fundamentally is beneath surface appearances."