I'm not attracted to naturalism, I'm not attracted to behavior, I'm attracted to dance. I'm attracted to gesture, I'm attracted to singing… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
“The universe, the whole mass of things that are, is corporeal, that is to say, body, and hath the dimensions of magnitude,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“Philosophically, I am a logical empiricist and materialist, and I am a veteran of over 400 radio and TV interviews and debates.… — Frank R. Zindler Copy Share Image
“Thomistic naturalism is still, to this day, the unofficial philosophy of the Roman Catholic Church.47 The most frequent criticism of Thomas’s argument… — Gregory Alan Thornbury Copy Share Image
What we take ourselves to be doing when we think about what is the case or how we should act is something… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
Once a photographer is convinced that the camera can lie and that, strictly speaking, the vast majority of photographs are camera lies,… — Andreas Feininger Copy Share Image
“I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise, Regardless of others, ever regardful of others, Maternal… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“With theology as a code of dogmas which are to be believed, or at any rate repeated, under penalty of present or… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“Intuition must be taken seriously in the absence of substantial theoretical understanding, but once such theoretical understanding begins to take shape, prior… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
“Nature, ... in order to carry out the marvelous operations [that occur] in animals and plants has been pleased to construct their… — Marcello Malpighi Copy Share Image
“But recently I have learned from discussions with a variety of scientists and other non-philosophers (e.g., the scientists participating with me in… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
“I am above the forest region, amongst grand rocks & such a torrent as you see in Salvator Rosa's paintings vegetation all… — Joseph Dalton Hooker Copy Share Image
“An interesting contrast between the geology of the present day and that of half a century ago, is presented by the complete… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“About once or twice every month I engage in public debates with those whose pressing need it is to woo and to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The living cell is the most complex system of its size known to mankind. Its host of specialized molecules, many found nowhere… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
We're looking for a certain kind of realism or naturalism, and we go about it in different ways, but I think we're… — Joe Swanberg Copy Share Image
“In the world of wild naturalism, there is nothing greater or higher than mortal survival tactics. Everything we do, we do as… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Because to me, what is interesting about this movie [Real Steel] is its combination of relationship naturalism with. It's like a single… — Shawn Anthony Levy Copy Share Image
Realism and Naturalism rely mostly on the eye of the flesh. Abstract, conceptual and surrealistic art rely mostly on the eye of… — Alex Grey Copy Share Image
“ Majestatis naturæ by ingenium (Genius equal to the majesty of nature.) [ Inscribed ordered by King Louis XV for the base… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If it is the case that we are merely slaves to the natural processes computing our advanced fight and flight responses, then… — Lewis N. Roe Copy Share Image
If modernist naturalism were true, there would be no objective truth outside of science. In that case right and wrong would be… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
“For if a man by magical arts and sacrifices will bring down the moon, and darken the sun, and induce storms, or… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
The question rather is how we should do science and theology in light of the impending collapse of Enlightenment rationalism and scientific… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
Visit a typical science classroom and you will discover far more than empirical facts being taught. The dominant worldview among scientific intellectuals… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
We are not compelled in naturalism, or even in materialism, to ignore immaterial things; the point is that any immaterial things which… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I believe there was a big bang and that because of that we are all connected into infinity, and I know very… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
There are unprecedented numbers of movements for human rights and freedoms. But the dominant worldviews in academia, like materialism and naturalism, deny… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
“God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but Fate and Nature. Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
“Ahistorical commentators who too readily dismiss Nietzsche's interest in physiological questions (e.g., DeMan 1979: 119; Nehamas 1985: 120) miss the centrality of… — Brian Leiter Copy Share Image
Methodological naturalism gives advice to scientists about what they should include in their theories. There is a second type of methodological naturalism… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
“The late Mr. David Hume , in his posthumous works, places the powers of generation much above those of our boasted reason;… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
“As students grow more and more accustomed to assuming materialism and naturalism in their academic work, the concept of creation by God… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
“Science is simply the classification of the common knowledge of the common people. It is bringing together the things we all know… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
“[There are, in us] possibilities that take our breath away, and show a world wider than either physics or philistine ethics can… — William James Copy Share Image
Naturalism is the view that the physical world is a self-contained system that works by blind, unbroken natural laws. Naturalism doesn't come… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
“When in 1863 Thomas Huxley coined the phrase 'Man's Place in Nature,' it was to name a short collection of his essays… — Homer W. Smith Copy Share Image
“ Lyell and Poulett Scrope , in this country, resumed the work of the Italians and of Hutton ; and the former,… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
Looking at the doctrine of Darwinism, which undergirded my atheism for so many years, it didn’t take me long to conclude that… — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
“Yes, I'm a materialist. I'm willing to be shown wrong, but that has not happened — yet. And I admit that the… — James Randi Copy Share Image
![“Nature, ... in order to carry out the marvelous operations [that occur] in animals and plants has been pleased to construct their organized bodies with a very large number of machines, which are of necessity made up of extremely minute parts so shaped and situated as to form a marvelous organ, the…” quote by Marcello Malpighi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/701/marcello-malpighi-36588_animals_nature-in-order-to-carry-out-the-marvelo_3124759.jpg)
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