Because Quote by Charles D. Broad

Philosophers of science constantly discuss theories and representation of reality, but say almost nothing about experiment, technology, or the use of knowledge to alter…

— Ian Hacking

The kind of approach I take is different from much of experimental philosophy. Although the experimental philosophers and I are certainly in agreement about…

— Hilary Kornblith

I do not think the division of the subject into two parts - into applied mathematics and experimental physics a good one, for natural…

— Balfour Stewart

We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed…

— Hannes Alfven

Philosophy was once considered science.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Philosophy is this amazing technique we've devised for getting reality to answer us back when we're getting it wrong. Science itself can't make those…

— Rebecca Goldstein

The physicist, in his study of natural phenomena, has two methods of making progress: (1) the method of experiment and observation, and (2) the…

— Paul Dirac

“Our craving for generality has [as one] source … our preoccupation with the method of science. I mean the method of reducing the explanation…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

There is a continuum between science and philosophy. As Fichte said (but did not practice), philosophy should be the science of sciences.

— Mario Bunge

Conclusions from observations are unreliable, only the mind can come nearer to to the truth. Thus, in some ways, philosophy is more important than…

— Anaxagoras

Experimentation is the least arrogant method of gaining knowledge. The experimenter humbly asks a question of nature.

— Isaac Asimov

Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.

— Max Planck