Philosophy Quote by Helena Sheehan

“Modern science was born through the Scientific Revolution in the 11th/17th century at a time when, as we saw earlier, European philosophy had itself…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

“The people who actually make the advances in theoretical physics don't think in these categories that the philosophers and the historians of science subsequently…

— Stephen Hawking

“Given that the `common sense' of many contemporary philosophers is shaped and supplemented by ideas from classical physics, the locus of most metaphysical discussions…

— James Ladyman

“The history of science is replete with abandoned concepts and theories. For instance, early modern scientists who tried to account for the movement of…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Given that the `common sense' of many contemporary philosophers is shaped and supplemented by ideas from classical physics, the locus of most metaphysical discussions…

— James Ladyman

“It is only rather recently that science has begun to make peace with its magical roots. Until a few decades ago, it was common…

— Philip Ball

“when the old empire began to rot at the fringes, it could be considered that science, as science, had failed the outer worlds. To…

— Isaac Asimov

“The trajectory of this tradition, from positivism to the current variety of postpositivist philosophies of science, has reflected the pressure of a complex reality…

— Helena Sheehan

“The truth is that science started its modern career by taking over ideas derived from the weakest side of the philosophies of Aristotle's successors.…

— Alfred North Whitehead

Science is history arranged according to the superstition and taste of the moment. The vocabulary of scholars has no wit, no salt. These heavy…

— Blaise Cendrars

The history of science should not be an instrument to defend any kind of social or philosophic theory; it should be used only for…

— George Sarton

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.

— Stephen Hawking