In mathematics and science we solve our problems as well as create them. But in art and philosophy things are not so… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“There are big questions science doesn’t answer, such as why is there something rather than nothing? There can’t be a scientific answer… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
There are big questions science doesn't answer, such as why is there something rather than nothing? There can't be a scientific answer… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“Its true that we learn a lot from science about how we function but there’s a danger in thinking knowledge of how… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“Many people under the influence of science, and particularly neuro-nonsense, will say the sacred is an old concept, it’s just a hangover,… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“law of nature that our scientific thinking tends toward the truth, our morality toward the good, and maybe (though he doesn’t go… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“The idea that scientific method is the only method of discovering the truth has a lot to be said for it, if… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“The assault on the human world in the name of science is more pseudo-science than science, and rejoices in its bald, unmoralised… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Science proposes something and then does everything it can to disprove it. Religion is not like that. It proposes something and does… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“In the light of this, it seems to me, we should recognize that the problem of climate change that occupies international negotiations… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it does not matter. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“So conceived, the English police force served to emphasize a fundamental truth about the English law, which is that it exists not to control… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
My 2018 ended with a hate storm, in response to my appointment as chair of the government's Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
I've never been an optimist, but that's fine because pessimists have the possibility of being agreeably surprised. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Unlike every other product that is now manufactured for the table, wine exists in as many varieties as there are people who produce it.… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“I think we can all see the force of the idea that there are certain things that cannot be done to human beings –… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
When art becomes merely shock value, our sense of humanity is slowly degraded. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“Western democracies did not create the virtue of citizenship; on the contrary, they grew from it. Nothing is more evident in The Federalist than… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“If one looks back to the French Revolution, one sees just how easy it is for the doctrine of “human rights” to become an… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“I say it was immediately apparent, but it was not apparent to the intellectual class, which has remained largely wedded to the post-war consensus… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Conservatives hold on to things not only because they are attached to them, but also because they do not see the sense in radical… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image