Philosopher Quotes

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It has often been said, and certainly not without justification, that the man of science is a poor philosopher. — Albert Einstein
It is told of Faraday that he refused to be called a physicist; he very much disliked the new name as being too special and… — Lionel Trilling
People complain that our generation has no philosophers. They are wrong. They now sit in another faculty. Their names are Max Planck and Albert Einstein.… — Adolf von Harnack
Philosophers and psychiatrists should explain why it is that we mathematicians are in the habit of systematically erasing our footsteps. Scientists have always looked askance… — Gian-Carlo Rota
Since the princes take the Earth for their own, it's fair that the philosophers reserve the sky for themselves and rule there, but they should… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
Students of the heavens are separable into astronomers and astrologers as readily as the minor domestic ruminants into sheep and goats, but the separation of… — Willard Van Orman Quine
What is a good definition? For the philosopher or the scientist, it is a definition which applies to all the objects to be defined, and… — Henri Poincare
Zoological taxonomists in general are inclined to be practical workers rather than philosophers, if only because they face such an unending task that they are… — Richard E. Blackwelder
Look not for refuge to anyone beside yourself. Heed fast to the truth as a lamp. — Gautama Buddha
Wisdom, humanity & courage, these three are universal virtues. The way by which they are practiced are one. — Confucius
Just as it is agreed that we all wish to be happy, so it is that we all wish to be wise, since no one… — Saint Augustine
The mind is a kind of theater, where several perceptions successively make their appearence; pass, re-pass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of… — David Hume
It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists. — Immanuel Kant
We should be surprised that a matter that generally plays such an important part in the life of man has hitherto been almost entirely disregarded… — Arthur Schopenhauer
All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Development of Western science is based on two great achievements: the invention of the formal logical system (in Euclidean geometry) by the Greek philosophers, and… — Albert Einstein
It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction.… — A.J. Ayer
But what exceeds all wonders, I have discovered four new planets and observed their proper and particular motions, different among themselves and from the motions… — Galileo Galilei
The philosopher says think your way out. The sensualist says play your way out but none of it works. — Billy Graham
Intelligence may indeed be a benign influence creating isolated groups of philosopher-kings far apart in the heavens... On the other hand, intelligence may be a… — Freeman Dyson

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