My own reasons for favouring talk of natural kinds is just…

If we want to make sense of the possibility of successful inductive inference, and if we want to explain the possibility of laws of…

— Hilary Kornblith

I do realise that talk of natural kinds dates back to Aristotle, but I'd better not say too much about ancient philosophers lest I…

— Hilary Kornblith

“It is indeed an opinion strangely prevailing amongst men, that houses, mountains, rivers, and in a word all sensible objects have an existence natural…

— George Berkeley

Time, which measures everything in our idea, and is often deficient to our schemes, is to nature endless and as nothing; it cannot limit…

— James Hutton

Zen, like life, defies exact definition, but its essence is the experience, moment by moment, of our own existence -- a natural, spontaneous encounter,…

— David Fontana

As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of bringing into existence the…

— David Attenborough

“Many people believe that if something comes from nature, it must be better than something synthetically made. Hence, the all-too-common (and meaningless) marketing claims…

— Michael Matthews

There is almost no evidence that diagnoses such as 'schizophrenia' and 'bipolar disorder' correspond to discrete entities ('natural kinds' in the language of philosophy).

— Richard Bentall

...there are special sciences not because of the nature of our epistemic relation to the world, but because of the way the world is…

— Jerry Fodor

The fact that these scientific theories have a fine track record of successful prediction and explanation speaks for itself. (Which is not to say…

— Hilary Kornblith

“From this point of view, the laws of science represent data compression in action. A theoretical physicist acts like a very clever coding algorithm.…

— James Gleick

You always have to be worried about something that is considered a so-called 'scientific theory' that fits every scenario. Climate change, as they've defined…

— Ted Cruz

Extreme heroism springs from something that no scientific theory can fully explain; it's an illogical impulse that flies in the face of biology, psychology,…

— Christopher McDougall

When you ask why did some particular question occur to a scientist or philosopher for the first time, or why did this particular approach…

— Rebecca Goldstein

Scientific theory and its application to the growing needs of mankind advance hand in hand.

— Cargill Gilston Knott