Another curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it. I mean philosophers, social scientists, and so… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
Philosophers and scientists confidently offer up traits said to be uniquely human, and the monkeys and apes casually knock them down --… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
What is reality? Is it not merely a term for the philosopher to conjure with, behind which he may craftily conceal his… — John Grier Hibben Copy Share Image
“Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Antiquity was often delighted to cast a halo of mythical glory around its illustrious names. The immortal works of this great philosopher… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
The walking delegates of a higher civilization, who have nothing to divide, look upon the notion of property as a purely artificial… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Parmenides taught that the only things that are real are things which never change... and the pre-Socratic Greek… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Fishermen, hunters, woodchoppers, and others, spending their lives in the fields and woods, in a peculiar sense a part of Nature themselves,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even the fullest existence as such is but… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
If you would learn to speak all tongues and conform to the customs of all nations, if you would travel farther than… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When we want culture more than potatoes, and illumination more than sugar-plums, then the great resources of a world are taxed anddrawn… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I believe that the Bible is to be understood and received in the plain and obvious meaning of its passages; for I… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Symbols and emblems were everywhere. Buildings and pictures were designed to be read like books. Everything stood for something else; if you… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I think if we could turn the dial a bit, and try to take what the philosopher Henry Sidgwick called "the point… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
While most of those who hold that the whole heaven is finite say that the earth lies at the center, the philosophers… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is well, when the wise and the learned discover new truths; but how much better to diffuse the truths already discovered,… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
The philosophers talk across the centuries exclusively to one another, hermetically sealed from any influences derived from non-philosophical discourse. — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Pathology, probably more than any other branch of science, suffers from heroes and hero-worship. Rudolf Virchow has been its archangel and William… — Harry S.N. Greene Copy Share Image
The law of causality, I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
If there is ever an amelioration of the condition of mankind, philosophers, theologians, legislators, politicians and moralists will find that the regulation… — John Adams Copy Share Image
We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
