Character Quote by George Pattison

One of the peculiar features of philosophical questions is how eager people are to offer solutions that miss the point of the questions. Sometimes…

— Rebecca Goldstein

Curiosity is the essence of human existence. 'Who are we? Where are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going?'... I don't…

— Anonymous

I'm not sure if Cupitt himself still uses this term, but it's useful in suggesting that, actually, there are more choices than the choice…

— George Pattison

A strange thing happens when you interview a robot. You feel an urge to be profound: to ask profound questions. I suppose it’s an…

— Jon Ronson

There is a worry that many have expressed that, on the naturalistic way of approaching philosophical questions, philosophy will somehow be co-opted by science.…

— Hilary Kornblith

“So, when I write a piece of fiction I select my characters and settings and so on because they have a bearing, at least…

— John Gardner

I'm not a sociologist, and the novel has often concerned itself with sociology. It's one of the generating forces that's made fiction interesting to…

— Jonathan Lethem

The plain fact is that there are no conclusions. If we must state a conclusion, it would be that many of the former conclusions…

— James Jeans

If we do get a quantum theory of spacetime, it should answer some of the deepest philosophical questions that we have, like what happened…

— Michio Kaku

Mann was profoundly influenced by two philosophers, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, who returned to the most ancient of all philosophical questions - "How to live?"…

— Philip Kitcher

Quite early on, and certainly since I started writing, I found that philosophical questions occupied me more than any other kind. I hadn't really…

— Tom Stoppard

One of the recurring philosophical questions is: 'Does a falling tree in the forest make a sound when there is no one to hear?'…

— Terry Pratchett