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- In relativity, movement is continuous, causally determinate and well defined, while in quantum mechanics it is discontinuous, not causally determinate and not… — David Bohm
- The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements… — John Playfair
- The gist of the matter is this: Every impression that comes in from without, be it a sentence which we hear, an… — William James
- By no amount of reasoning can we altogether eliminate all contingency from our world. Moreover, pure speculation alone will not enable us… — Morris Raphael Cohen
- It appears that all that can be, is. The Creator's hand does not appear to have been opened in order to give… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
- I started philosophy looking for answers. But along the way I came to prize exploring the questions. Progress in philosophy consists, I… — Kwame Anthony Appiah
- Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- How could politics be a science, if laws and forms of government had not a uniform influence upon society? Where would be… — David Hume