“In the eighteenth century, philosophers considered the whole of human knowledge, including science, to be their field and discussed questions such as:… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“Put a man on the brink of the abyss and--in the unlikely event that he doesn't fall into it--he will become either… — Christos H. Papadimitriou Apostolos Doxiadis Copy Share Image
“If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present." L. Wittgenstein,… — Chris M. Carmichael Copy Share Image
“ He was of the opinion... that his ideas were generally misunderstood and distorted even by those who professed to be his… — Georg Henrik von Wright Copy Share Image
“Wittgenstein likes to assert: "Whereof we cannot speak we must be silent". But skilfully using our hands and manipulating our thoughts can… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“It is difficult to describe paths of thought where there are already many paths laid down, and not fall into one of… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“Philosophy is that activity by which the meaning of propositions is established or discovered; it is a question of what the propositions… — Moritz Schlick Copy Share Image
“Earlier fundamental work of Whitehead, Russell, Wittgenstein, Carnap, Whorf, etc., as well as my own attempt to use this earlier thinking as… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
“An even more important philosophical contact was with the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, who began as my pupil and ended as my… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“When I met Wittgenstein, I saw that Schlick's warnings were fully justified. But his behavior was not caused by any arrogance. In… — Rudolf Carnap Copy Share Image
“Like the positivists, Wittgenstein was hostile to metaphysics. But he attacked metaphysics not with a blunt instrument like the verification principle, but… — Anthony Kenny Copy Share Image
“Our craving for generality has [as one] source … our preoccupation with the method of science. I mean the method of reducing… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“Of course, one is familiar with the experience of seeing something ambiguous. “Now it is the Taj Mahal—now it is fog.” And… — Michael Frayn Copy Share Image
