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- Even the most scientific investigator in science, the most thoroughgoing Positivist, cannot dispense with fiction; he must at least make use of… — 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… — Aldous Huxley
- One might think this means that imaginary numbers are just a mathematical game having nothing to do with the real world. From… — Stephen Hawking
- To get at the meaning of a statement the logical positivist asks, What would the world be like if it were true?… — Abraham Kaplan
- There was an ape in the days that were earlier, Centuries passed and his hair became curlier; Centuries more gave a thumb… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Flannery O'Connor