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
“ Napoleon , when hearing about Laplace 's latest book, said, ' M. Laplace , they tell me you have written this… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
When I began in the late '90s, I felt quite lonely. We were coming out of the grunge era; it was the… — Miles Aldridge Copy Share Image
The challenge and the goal was to get inside Owen's [Suskind] world, because I really wanted to see it through his point… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
“I believe the defenders of intelligent design deserve our gratitude for challenging a scientific world view that owes some of the passion… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
My position is a naturalistic one; I see philosophy not as an a priori propaedeutic or groundwork for science, but as continuous… — Willard Van Orman Quine 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
“A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and because firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the case… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“The theory of phlogiston was an inversion of the true nature of combustion. Removing phlogiston was in reality adding oxygen, while adding… — Michael Denton Copy Share Image
Evolutionists ... have a prior commitment, a commitment to naturalism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
“Why doesn't the pope convert to Calvinism? Why doesn't the Dalai Lama, convert to Christianity, why doesn't Billy Graham convert to Islam,… — Bangambiki Habyarimana 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
“Naturalism is a picture of the whole of reality that cannot, according to its own intrinsic premises, address the being of the… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
This man, who for twenty-five years has been reading and writing about art, and in all that time has never understood anything… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
It had also been my belief since I started writing fiction that science fiction is never really about the future. When science… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I don't understand why people don't use improvisation, especially in comedy films, but also, for me, you get more naturalism, and that's… — Alice Lowe Copy Share Image
“The complexity of the simplest known type of cell is so great that it is impossible to accept that such an object… — Michael Denton Copy Share Image
Modernist discourse [...] incorporates semantic devices - such as the labeling of theism as 'religion' and naturalism as 'science' - that work… — Phillip E. Johnson 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
The naturalistic literature of this country has reached such a state that no family of characters is considered true to life whichdoes… — Robert Benchley 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
Science...has become identified with a philosophy known as materialism or scientific naturalism. This philosophy insists that nature is all there is, or… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
I admire David Hare as much as I admire certainly any writer ever. What I like about his writing is it is… — Bill Nighy Copy Share Image
In our greatest universities, naturalism - the doctrine that nature is all there is - is the virtually unquestioned assumption that underlies… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
I have a horror of tags and labels. I don't understand, for instance, how people can talk about Bergman's "symbolism". Far from… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
I do think that it is legitimate to talk of goals and functions in nature, and that these things can be made… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
In terms of making TV drama, not everything has to make sense. In cinema, you usually strive for reality and a natural… — Takashi Miike 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
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
Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers… — Hu Shih 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
I love a certain kind of acting style that I would call non-American, which tends to be more detail-oriented and less externalized.… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are too primitive, too infantile, too inconsistent with… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
I was born in Paris in the mid-1960s, and by the time I was 12 I had started going to the movies… — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important, and that she feels she would not maim… — Stephen Crane Copy Share Image
“Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It has no power to explain even some of the most basic principles of the universe and existence.… — Lewis N. Roe Copy Share Image
The speculative object and the practical object of philosophy as Naturalism, science and pleasure, coincide on this point: it is always a… — Gilles Deleuze 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
“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
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