Century Quote by David Papineau

Physics has never been a comfortable subject for human psychology. The desire to regard everything outside the human race's purview as insignificant, and everything…

— Celia Green

“The value of a physical theory depends upon its usefulness. In this sense the history of physical theories might be said to resemble the…

— Gary Zukav

“I wonder how it can be considered that science disenchants the world. The power of the spells of physics to make the empty solid…

— Robin Ince

“The ideal of the 11th/17th century physicists was to be able to explain all physical reality in terms of the movement of atoms. This…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism . . . the great masters of the past boasted all they could…

— Ezra Pound

If there is such a simple argument for physicalism, how come everybody hasn't always been a physicalist? That's a good question, and there is…

— David Papineau

“As science advanced in the late nineteenth century, it increasingly excluded appeals to divine action or divine ideas as a way of explaining phenomena…

— Stephen C. Meyer

The fundamental concepts of physical science, it is now understood, are abstractions, framed by our mind, so as to bring order to an apparent…

— William Cecil Dampier

Very few of us can now place ourselves in the mental condition in which even such philosophers as the great Descartes were involved in…

— James Clerk Maxwell

At present, when the prevailing forms of society have become hindrances to the free expression of human powers, it is precisely the abstract branches…

— Max Horkheimer

“Science is a system of rational thought devised to investigate the world and establish the laws by which it operates. The scientist uses those…

— Joe Abercrombie

The mental never influences the physical. It is always the physical that modifies the mental, and when we think that the mind is diseased,…

— Claude Bernard