Science Quotes

"Science is the systematic pursuit of wonder."

"The universe contains layers of structure that reward careful investigation."

"Causation is a fundamental feature of the world that deserves our careful attention."

"Objects exist at multiple levels of composition and organization."

"The nature of causation shapes our understanding of all natural phenomena."

"The properties of objects determine their role in the causal order."

"Composition and decomposition reflect fundamental features of being."

"The causal structure of the world reflects the nature of objects and their properties."

"Objects possess intrinsic natures that determine their behavior and relationships."

"The study of composition illuminates the structure of all complex entities."

"Objects and their relations constitute the furniture of reality."

"The abstract realm of mathematics may be more real than the physical world we perceive."

"The indispensability argument for mathematical realism has more teeth than critics admit."

"Nominalism fails to adequately capture why mathematics is so unreasonably effective."

"Platonism offers clarity but raises unanswerable questions about causation."

"Mathematics works too well to be merely a human invention."

"Structuralism in mathematics offers a middle path between realism and conventionalism."

"Mathematical properties are real even if mathematical objects are not."

"Rejecting Platonism requires us to explain away our deepest mathematical intuitions."

"The independence of mathematical truths from human minds is undeniable."

"Fiction cannot account for the apparent necessity of mathematical truths."

"Abstract objects pose no greater metaphysical puzzle than concrete objects do."

"Nominalism, while admirable in its parsimony, sacrifices explanatory power."

"Every serious physics requires a robust philosophy of mathematics."

"To deny the reality of numbers is to saw off the branch on which all science sits."

"Nominalism purchases simplicity at the cost of unintelligibility."

"Physics without mathematics is incoherent; mathematics without Platonism is mysterious."

"The indispensability of mathematics to science supports commitment to mathematical objects."

"Our evolved minds can grasp eternal truths through mathematical reasoning."

"Fictionalism about mathematics fails because mathematical truths aren't pragmatic conveniences."