Accounts Quote by Hans Reichenbach

Philosophy is based on speculation, on logic, on thought, on the synthesis of what we know and on the analysis of what we do…

— P.D. Ouspensky

Most areas of intellectual life have discovered the virtues of speculation, and have embraced them wildly. In academia, speculation is usually dignified as theory.

— Michael Crichton

Conclusions from observations are unreliable, only the mind can come nearer to to the truth. Thus, in some ways, philosophy is more important than…

— Anaxagoras

Philosophy is "an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly.

— William James

It was while teaching philosophy that I saw how easily one can say ... what one wants to say. ... In fact, I became…

— Jean Piaget

Philosophy is that part of science which at present people chose to have opinions about, but which they have no knowledge about. Therefore every…

— Bertrand Russell

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

I am of the opinion that all the finer speculations in the realm of science spring from a deep religious feeling, and that without…

— Albert Einstein

There is no other start to philosophy but wonder.

— Plato

Science is what we know, and philosophy is what we don't know.

— Bertrand Russell

Philosophy was once considered science.

— P. J. O'Rourke

“Philosophy, like science, is only a collection of hypotheses, introduced for the usefulness of the ensemble, or for economy of thought.”

— Fulton J. Sheen