Baboons Quote by Charles Darwin

He who understands baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.

— Charles Darwin

“Origin of man now proved.—Metaphysics must flourish.—He who understands baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.”

— Charles Darwin

“Origin of man now proved. Metaphysics must flourish. He who understand baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.”

— Charles Darwin

“Starting from Descartes’ commitment to a few absolutely certain innate ideas and reason’s ability to determine some facts about reality a priori, Leibniz ended…

— Lee Braver

“The biggest question, transcending physics and the realm of how he was able to do the extraordinary things he did, remained firmly rooted in…

— Sol Luckman

I do not think a philosopher who would apply himself so earnestly to the explaining the ultimate principles of the soul, would show himself…

— David Hume

“Human understanding is limited—and the things that metaphysics seeks to know, we can never know.”

— T.Z. Lavine

“A great physicist is always a metaphysicist as well; he has a higher concept of his knowledge and his task.”

— Ernst Jünger

“His lack of reverence for authority and his willingness to challenge received wisdom would lead him to craft an empirical approach for understanding nature…

— Walter Isaacson

How curious it was, how ironic, he decided, that the human brain seemed capable of understanding almost everything but itself.

— Anonymous

“Starting from Descartes’ commitment to a few absolutely certain innate ideas and reason’s ability to determine some facts about reality a priori, Leibniz ended…

— Lee Braver

He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the…

— Charles Caleb Colton