Natural world Quote by Christof Koch

“Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the interest…

— Bertrand Russell

“To be more precise: although philosophical questions concern us all, we do not all become philosophers.”

— Jostein Gaarder

“One view is that philosophy is a kind of halfway house for questions that have not yet yielded to the scientific method.”

— Ray Kurzweil

“Perhaps one of the most important lessons of philosophy is to teach us how to live with the questions unanswered , rather than settle…

— Stewart Shapiro

“Should we care about philosopher if the world so clearly doesn't?”

— N.D. Wilson

“Philosophy limits the disputable sphere of natural science.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“For history and for science facts are self-evident and are the subject-matter of these studies, but for philosophy they are the most puzzling things…

— Michael Oakeshott

“great thinkers simply got stuck out of sheer curiosity investigating very general questions about the way things are.”

— Susan Neiman

“every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it”

— Paulo Coelho

A wise and well-informed humanist has taken the time to look lovingly and wonderingly at the living world around him, and to study the…

— Marston Bates

“We are given no escape from ultimate questions. In one way or another they are in us, whether we like it or not. Scientific…

— Andrew Davison

“There is no intellectual exercise that is not ultimately pointless. A philosophical doctrine is, at first, a plausible description of the universe; the years…

— Jorge Luis Borges