Humans Quote by Catherine Wilson

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet…

— Jonathan Swift

Once I found out the secret of the universe. I have forgotten what it was, but I know that the Creator does not take…

— Lord Dunsany

I had four hundred thousand pages of continental philosophy and lit theory in my head. And by God, I was going to use it…

— David Foster Wallace

I used to think that I was stupid, and then I met philosophers.

— Terry Pratchett

I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read 'wildly,' and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas.

— Michel Onfray

Something pretty mysterious had to give rise to the origin of the universe.

— Richard Dawkins

Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it.

— Chaim Weizmann

The scientists often have more unfettered imaginations than current philosophers do. Relativity theory came as a complete surprise to philosophers, and so did quantum…

— Robert Nozick

It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once logical and boundless.

— William Butler Yeats

I was a senior research scientist that changed the accepted view of the structure of the universe. I disproved one of the then widely…

— Chien-Shiung Wu

I saw that philosophy had no power to make my life more bearable. Thus I lost my belief in philosophy.

— Anonymous

“The whole idea of a unified universe with mathematically regular laws, that was what had been flushed down the toilet; the whole notion of…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky