Positivist Quotes

12 quotes by 11 authors

Even the most scientific investigator in science, the most thoroughgoing Positivist, cannot dispense with fiction; he must at least make use of categories, and they… — Havelock Ellis
A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and… — Aldous Huxley
One might think this means that imaginary numbers are just a mathematical game having nothing to do with the real world. From the viewpoint of… — Stephen Hawking
To get at the meaning of a statement the logical positivist asks, What would the world be like if it were true? The operationist asks,… — Abraham Kaplan
There was an ape in the days that were earlier, Centuries passed and his hair became curlier; Centuries more gave a thumb to his wrist… — Mortimer Collins
Maybe I'm being a bit harsh on philosophers, but they have not been very kind to me... I have been variously called nominalist, an instrumentalist,… — Stephen Hawking
Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn't prove a… — Alan Greenspan
If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or… — Flannery O'Connor
The time has come to realise that an interpretation of the universeâ€”even a positivist oneâ€”remains unsatisfying unless it covers the interior as well as the… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The self-styled practical man of affairs who pooh-poohs philosophy as a lot of windy notions is himself a pragmatist or a positivist, and a bad… — Alan Watts
The residue of religion in my work appears as a modified transcendentalism, and the positivist scientific side of my thought appears as concreteness and realism.… — Louis Dudek
Old age has the last word: the purely naturalistic look at life, however enthusiastically it may begin, is sure to end in sadness. . .… — William James

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