David Berlinski

In the end, every scheme and every science is justified by itself or it is not justified at all.

— David Berlinski

For all the great dreams profitlessly invested in the digital computer, it is nonetheless true that not since the framers of the…

— David Berlinski

The motion of the mind is conveyed along a cloud of meaning.~ There is this paradox that we get to meaning only…

— David Berlinski

“The argument that Hawking has offered may be conveyed by question-and-answer, as in the Catholic catechism.   A Catechism of Quantum Cosmology…

— David Berlinski

If moral statements are about something, then the universe is not quite as science suggests it is, since physical theories, having said…

— David Berlinski

“Before you can ask 'Is Darwinian theory correct or not?', You have to ask the preliminary question 'Is it clear enough so…

— David Berlinski

“What Hitler did not believe and what Stalin did not believe and what Mao did not believe and what the SS did…

— David Berlinski

Bystanders wandered in and out of the merchant's stall, passing the time, talking of dreams they might purchase. Workers and slaves stooped…

— David Berlinski

“Whatever the degree to which Darwin may have “misled science into a dead end,” the biologist Shi V. Liu observed in commenting…

— David Berlinski

No distinction in kind rather than degree between ourselves and the chimps? No distinction? Seriously, folks? Here is a simple operational test:…

— David Berlinski

The desire to see and the desire to ratify what one has seen are desires at odds with one another, if only…

— David Berlinski

Every computer divides itself into its hardware and its software, the machine host to its algorithm, the human being to his mind.…

— David Berlinski

I do not know whether any of this is true. I am certain that the scientific community does not know that it…

— David Berlinski

For the most part, it is true, ordinary men and women regard mathematics with energetic distaste, counting its concepts as rhapsodic as…

— David Berlinski

The definition of a limit is essentially his [Cauchy's] creation and is as much of a miracle as those fantastic Swiss clocks…

— David Berlinski

Although every novel is derived directly from another novel, there is really only one novel, the Quixote.

— David Berlinski

Commentators who today talk of 'The Dark Ages' when faith instead of reason was said to ruthlessly rule, have for their animadversions…

— David Berlinski

At the beginning of the new millennium, we still do not know why mathematics is true and whether it is certain. But…

— David Berlinski

Darwinism is not a sufficient condition for a phenomenon like Nazism but I think it's certainly a necessary one,

— David Berlinski

While science has nothing of value to say on the great and aching questions of life, death, love and meaning, what the…

— David Berlinski

“No very good sense can be given to the idea that the elements of Euclidean geometry may be found in nature because…

— David Berlinski

However good an argument in philosophy may happen to be, it is generally not good enough.

— David Berlinski

Some philosophers see into themselves, and some into their times; still others forge an alliance with the future.

— David Berlinski

Ultimately, Leibniz argued, there are only two absolutely simple concepts, God and Nothingness. From these, all other concepts may be constructed, the…

— David Berlinski

“A defense [of religion] is needed because none has been forthcoming. The discussion has been ceded to men who regard religious belief…

— David Berlinski