Philosophers of science have repeatedly demonstrated that…

“we have repeatedly demonstrated our species's bottomless ability to lower our standards to make information technology look good.”

— Jaron Lanier

Philosophers of science constantly discuss theories and representation of reality, but say almost nothing about experiment, technology, or the use of knowledge to alter…

— Ian Hacking

“Contrary to the rules of philosophers of science, who advise testing hypotheses by trying to refute them, people (and scientists, quite often) seek data…

— Daniel Kahneman

It is generally agreed by philosophers of science that important contributions which have a revolutionary impact on science are often methodologically inadequate, reveal many…

— Hans Eysenck

“Despite such significant departures from the antimetaphysical and ahistorical heritage of the Vienna Circle, it still cannot be said that philosophers of science have…

— Helena Sheehan

I think philosophers can do things akin to theoretical scientists, in that, having read about empirical data, they too can think of what hypotheses…

— Robert Nozick

When you design a building, you start from a general philosophy, and you come down, and you start from detail and come up. Only…

— Renzo Piano

Humanism has many meanings, but what attracts me about it is that it encourages men and women to take a broad view of situations…

— Joseph Badaracco

So instead of talking about theoretical ways of ending the war and violence, I say that we have to get rid of the individual…

— Colin Quinn

The classes of problems which are respectively known and not known to have good algorithms are of great theoretical interest. [...] I conjecture that…

— Jack Edmonds

A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been…

— Talcott Parsons

The trouble is that when you read criticisms about the other films that I've made you get the impression that they're all about themes,…

— Michael Haneke

The fear of speculation, the ostensible rush from the theoretical to the practical, brings about the same shallowness in action that it does in…

— Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of the fission bomb forces…

— Erich Fromm

Close contact between science and the practice of collective farms and State farms creates inexhaustible opportunities for the development of theoretical knowledge, enabling us…

— Trofim Lysenko