Science Quotes

"Language hooks onto the world, not through intention alone."

"The mind-body problem persists because we misunderstand mentality."

"Counterfactual dependence grounds our understanding of cause."

"The puzzle of intentionality is the puzzle of how mind reaches world."

"Consciousness cannot be fully captured by any description."

"Meaning cannot be reduced to mental content alone."

"Counterfactual reasoning is how we understand our actual world."

"Consciousness is not a mystery but a challenge for philosophy."

"Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification."

"The true spirit of science is not certainty but uncertainty, not dogma but inquiry."

"Scientific theories are not conclusions proven by evidence; they are conjectures that survive refutation attempts."

"Every theory contains within it the seeds of its own refutation."

"The growth of science depends on our willingness to be proven wrong."

"The scientific method is simply the formalization of our natural human curiosity."

"The scientific worldview is characterized not by answers but by better questions."

"The purpose of science is not to remove mystery but to deepen our understanding of it."

"Every theory is a human construction, provisional and subject to revision."

"The verification principle itself cannot be verified, yet it remains useful."

"Science progresses by eliminating possibilities, not by confirming them."

"Reality is not what we perceive, but what we can consistently verify."

"We must distinguish between correlation and causation."

"We must test our beliefs against reality repeatedly."

"The evidence of the senses is the beginning of knowledge, not its end."

"The universe is governed by laws, but these laws are descriptions, not forces."

"Science is our most reliable guide to reality, yet it remains underdetermined by experience."

"Objects are theoretical constructs justified by their explanatory power."

"Empirical content is distributed throughout our entire system of beliefs."

"Physicalism need not deny the reality of abstract objects."

"The underdetermination of theory by evidence is inevitable."

"Empiricism must accept that some principles are presupposed, not derived."