When you ask why did some particular question occur to a scientist or philosopher for the first time, or why did this… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
“one evangelical scientist who had felt his doubts falling away from him when he was hiking in the mountains and came upon… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
We need science. We need empirical evidence. We can't just use mathematical reasoning to deduce the nature of the world. — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
I think the humanities always have to take science, our great knowledge that we get from science, into account, but then try… — Rebecca Goldstein 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
It was while I was studying philosophy that I came to understand. . . that it is no sign of moral or… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
I would say to anybody who thinks that all the problems in philosophy can be translated into empirically verifiable answers - whether… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
What is it precisely, that they are doing when they are doing science. Are they refining their instruments for observation or discovering… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
If there is such a thing as philosophical progress, then why - unlike scientific progress - is it so invisible? Philosophical progress… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
I like that there are so many different ways of looking at the world and I like all of the particular narratives.… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
It's something that's very often said that philosophy, as opposed to science, never makes any progress. — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Given cognitive vulnerabilities, it would be convenient to have an arrangement whereby reality could tell us off; and that is precisely what… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Youth is not an essential, but rather an accidental property. Nobody is in essence young. One either ceases to be or ceases to be… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Plato dramatically puts the detachment of the philosopher from his time this way: to philosophize is to prepare to die. — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
When you ask why did some particular question occur to a scientist or philosopher for the first time, or why did this particular approach… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Those who share my heroes are, in the deepest sense, of my own kind. — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
“one evangelical scientist who had felt his doubts falling away from him when he was hiking in the mountains and came upon a frozen… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Because of the failure of religion to offer satisfying answers to an increasing number of people, it's time for philosophy to address forcefully these… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
If we look at our attitudes consistently and work out the logical implications we're on the road to moral progress, moral understanding. — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
We may not need God to tell us where the world came from, but we need God to be able to live moral lives… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
In order to refute a conclusion, you have to put forth the best possible argument for it. — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Philosophical progress changes what we take to be "intuitively" obvious, and this change covers up the tracks of the laborious arguments that preceded the… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
What one tries to force into a child against its own nature will never come to good. — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
