Mario Bunge

Science is morally neutral, but social science shows us that some moral codes are better than others.

— Mario Bunge

Whereas science elicits changes in order to know, technology knows in order to elicit changes.

— Mario Bunge

We deem valuable whatever is likely to meet our needs or wishes (individual values) and whatever is likely to help protect or…

— Mario Bunge

A distinguished cognitive neuroscientist confessed to me that, because of his religious upbringing, he could not get rid of psychoneural dualism. The…

— Mario Bunge

In the scientific community you find competent teachers and original researchers, just as in the musical community you find many good performers…

— Mario Bunge

Of course much remains to know, but we know how to learn: through scientific research.

— Mario Bunge

Most contemporary philosophers are conservative and eager to keep their jobs.

— Mario Bunge

To me, work is not a burden but my main hobby. This is why I always take work with me when I…

— Mario Bunge

A democratic state will protect the freedom to hold any beliefs other than those that harm others, such as racism. In particular,…

— Mario Bunge

The motto of science is not just Pauca but rather Plurima ex paucissimis - the most out of the least.

— Mario Bunge

It is scandalous the way some scientists accept uncritically some of the most ridiculous speculations, such as the plurality of worlds, the…

— Mario Bunge

All philosophers can do is to abstain from helping the aggressors and to enjoin social scientists to tell the truth instead of…

— Mario Bunge

In any event, I don't believe in instant philosophy, because interesting problems take a long time to understand and work out. Just…

— Mario Bunge

Only the stupid and the wicked can fear rational criticism.

— Mario Bunge

The fact is that all the important political philosophers and scientists from the great Aristotle on, with the exception of those of…

— Mario Bunge

Philosophy can help laymen spot and reject the numerous pseudoscientific beliefs that survive in the media, such as the fantasies of psychoanalysts,…

— Mario Bunge

Under theocracies and other authoritarian regimes, the rulers are the moral authorities. Under genuine democracy some basic values are entrenched in the…

— Mario Bunge

Few if any political philosophers have had the courage of tackling the Cold War. Even the best of them have kept silent…

— Mario Bunge

There is a continuum between science and philosophy. As Fichte said (but did not practice), philosophy should be the science of sciences.

— Mario Bunge

All genuine philosophy transcends national boundaries. Patriotic philosophies are just nationalist ideologies.

— Mario Bunge

Original philosophy is always "deviant" or even subversive.

— Mario Bunge

Of course you cannot free yourself from the laws of nature; but the laws of nervous systems are not the same as…

— Mario Bunge

Some of the big philosophical problems have been solved by science, at least to a 1st approximation. Examples: the problems of matter,…

— Mario Bunge

Communication accompanies social transactions and can instruct or stultify, mobilize or intimidate, but it is no substitute for production, collaboration and fight.

— Mario Bunge

I believe that modern science supports free will, in showing that the brain can act spontaneously, not only in response to external…

— Mario Bunge