Advancement Quote by Adolf von Harnack

A couple of hundred years from now, maybe [science fiction writers] Isaac Asimov and Fred Pohl will be considered the important philosophers of the…

— Marvin Minsky

“The people who actually make the advances in theoretical physics don't think in these categories that the philosophers and the historians of science subsequently…

— Stephen Hawking

“When it comes to science, philosophers stand still.”

— Sam Houssami

There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers

— Henry David Thoreau

It is, I think, particularly in periods of acknowledged crisis that scientists have turned to philosophical analysis as a device for unlocking the riddles…

— Thomas Kuhn

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

— Albert Einstein

There were two kinds of physicists in Berlin: on the one hand there was Einstein, and on the other all the rest.

— Rudolf Ladenburg

“In this field, almost everything is already discovered, and all that remains is to fill a few unimportant holes. { Advising his student, Max…

— Philipp von Jolly

Yet as I cast my eye over the whole course of science I behold instances of false science, even more pretentious and popular than…

— Arthur Lynch

“The great German physicist Max Planck had been advised by his lecturer, the marvellously named Philipp von Jolly, not to pursue the study of…

— J.M.R. Higgs

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.

— Stephen Hawking

Why is it the philosopher who is expected to be easier and not some scientist who is even more inaccessible?

— Jacques Derrida