Facts Quote by George Eliot

He was the ultimate experiment in Nature Versus Nurture, and she imagined he must be engaged in a constant battle between what he was…

— Larissa Ione

“His education had been neither scientific nor classical—merely “Modern.” The severities both of abstraction and of high human tradition had passed him by: and…

— C.S. Lewis

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

— Albert Einstein

The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.

— Anonymous

“Yet, as has been said of him before, no theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself.…

— Oscar Wilde

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

— Douglas Adams

“...most gentlemen of breeding considered themselves amateurs at all kinds of disciplines. Go all the way back to Jefferson, who collected fossils and wrote…

— Jack Hitt

“She tried to argue, and tell him that he had mixed in his dull brain two matters, theology and morals, which in the primitive…

— Thomas Hardy

“A man may possess a profound knowledge of history and mathematics; he may be an authority in psychology, biology, or astronomy; he may know…

— David O. McKay

“Before Socrates, philosophers were primarily interested in explaining the world around them and the phenomena of that world—in doing what we would now call…

— William B. Irvine

He had heard that women often love plain ordinary men, but he did not believe it, because he judged by himself and he could…

— Anonymous

“Vulnerable, like all men, to the temptations of arrogance, of which intellectual pride is the worst, he [ the scientist ] must nevertheless remain…

— Louis de Broglie