“The scientific community has lost its original sense of responsibility.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Religion is what gives a person hope to keep walking even in the darkest times.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“the problem with philosphy problems is that they don't have proper solutions” — Martin Cohen Copy Share Image
“When air becomes breath, and cells become sentient, Words become poetry, and facts become science.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it. — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
“We need a dream-world in order to discover the features of the real world we think we inhabit.” — Paul Karl Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind. — Imre Lakatos Copy Share Image
“No field of human excellence can progress without a genuine humane conscience driving it in the right direction.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Distortion and suppression of the truth is encouraged by a prevailing attitude of scientism, not science itself but rather a certain attitude… — Angus Menuge Copy Share Image
Science was born as a result and consequence of philosophy; it cannot survive without a philosophical base. If philosophy perishes, science will… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“It is a strange fancy to suppose that science can bring reason to an irrational world, when all it can ever do… — John Gray Copy Share Image
In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken..." — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“The point is that if the knowledge that provides the categories we use to describe our observations is defective, the observation statements… — Alan F. Chalmers Copy Share Image
“and I think (like you, by the way) that theory cannot be fabricated out of the results of observation, but that it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Philosophy is this amazing technique we've devised for getting reality to answer us back when we're getting it wrong. Science itself can't… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
physics explains everything, which we know because anything physics cannot explain does not exist, which we know because whatever exists must be… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
I'm a geophysicist who has conducted and published climate studies in top-rank scientific journals. My perspective on Mr. Inhofe and the issue… — David Deming Copy Share Image
When I got to college, I planned to be a math major, and, in addition to signing up for some math courses,… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
“The inability of Darwinian psychology to account for human reasoning is devastating to its pretensions to be a science. The prestige of… — Angus Menuge Copy Share Image
“Science does not stand as a moral guardian of humanity, rather it attempts to stand as the least subjective, least biased and… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I don't join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn't have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
After two years of undergraduate study, it was clear that I was bored by the regime of problem-solving required by the Cambridge… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“We all live our lives blindly believing in the people who make the decisions. Believing in science. Because the world is inscrutable… — Peter Hoeg Copy Share Image
“I fully agree with you about the significance and educational value of methodology as well as history and philosophy of science. So… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Zero is powerful because it is infinity’s twin. They are equal and opposite, yin and yang. They are equally paradoxical and troubling.… — Charles Seife Copy Share Image
“At a cellular level of the human mind, Islamophobia is not really a matter of social stigma, rather it is a natural… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I fully agree with you about the significance and educational value of as well as history and philosophy of science. So many… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“The focus of history and philosophy of science scholar Arthur Miller’s (2010) "137: Jung and Pauli and the Pursuit of Scientific Obsession"… — Todd Hayen Copy Share Image
Certain issues in philosophy of science (having to do with observation and the definition of a theory's empirical import) had beenmisconstrued as… — Bas van Fraassen Copy Share Image
Work on causal theories of knowledge - early work by Armstrong, and Dretske, and Goldman - seemed far more satisfying. As I… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
“Thomas Kuhn’s book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions has probably been more widely read—and more widely misinterpreted—than any other book in the… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“True genius is the one of the heart, not of intellect. Because intellect-less heart, though exploited a lot, still does good, whereas… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“I did not write this work merely with the aim of setting the exegetical record straight. My larger target is those contemporaries… — Larry Laudan Copy Share Image
“It isn't the sort of argument Pointsman relishes either. But he glances sharply at this young anarchist in his red scarf. "Pavlov… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“[...] One chief difference between the medieval "scientist" and the scientist of to-day[1948] lies in the nature of the first principles accepted… — Leon Roth Copy Share Image
“But we must not forget that all things in the world are connected with one another and depend on one another, and… — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
The philosophy of science is inherent in the process. This is to say, you think critically, you draw a conclusion based on… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image