Rudolf Carnap

Anything you can do, I can do meta

— Rudolf Carnap

Metaphysicians are musicians without musical ability.

— Rudolf Carnap

In logic, there are no morals.

— Rudolf Carnap

Let us be cautious in making assertions and critical in examining them, but tolerant in permitting linguistic forms.

— Rudolf Carnap

In science there are no 'depths'; there is surface everywhere.

— Rudolf Carnap

Science is a system of statements based on direct experience, and controlled by experimental verification. Verification in science is not, however, of…

— Rudolf Carnap

It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions.

— Rudolf Carnap

“Let us be cautious in making assertions and critical in examining them, but tolerant in permitting linguistic forms. [Carnap’s famous plea for…

— Rudolf Carnap

Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems.

— Rudolf Carnap

The self is the class (not the collection) of the experiences (or autopsychological states). The self does not belong to the expression…

— Rudolf Carnap

If one is interested in the relations between fields which, according to customary academic divisions, belong to different departments, then he will…

— Rudolf Carnap

“When I met Wittgenstein, I saw that Schlick's warnings were fully justified. But his behavior was not caused by any arrogance. In…

— Rudolf Carnap