Philosophy Quote by J. Robert Oppenheimer Download Open image “Pragmatism is an intellectually safe but ultimately sterile philosophy.” — J. Robert Oppenheimer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Philosophy Pragmatism Safe
Pragmatism ... reflects with almost disarming candor the spirit of the prevailing business culture, the very same attitude of 'being practical' as counter to… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
Pragmatism is the disguise progressive and other ideologues do when they want to demonize competing ideologies. — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
I am pragmatic. That which works, works, and theory can go screw itself. However, my pragmatism also extends to maintainability, which is why I… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
The pragmatist turns away from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad a priori reasons, from fixed principles, closed systems, and pretended absolutes… — William James Copy Share Image
Pragmatism , in trying to turn experimental physics into a prototype of all science and to model all spheres of intellectual life after the… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
“Pragmatism emphasizes the irrationality of opinion, and psycho-analysis emphasizes the irrationality of conduct. Both have led many people to the view that there is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“We may be tainted with pragmatism, but it only needs a clash of personalities to remind us of our principles.” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Pragmatism is nothing without imagination; and imagination is wasted without pragmatism” — Robert Holdstock Copy Share Image
In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search. — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men. — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
It is proper to the role of the scientist that he not merely find new truth and communicate it to his fellows, but that… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
To try to be happy is to try to build a machine with no other specification than that it shall run noiselessly. — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
We hunger for nobility: the rare words and acts that harmonize simplicity and truth. — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
This world of ours is a new world, in which the unit of knowledge, the nature of human communities, the order of society, the… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things. — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
You can certainly destroy enough of humanity so that only the greatest act of faith can persuade you that what's left will be human. — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
“MIND & GRIND Self-belief and hard work can propel you past more talented peers” — Kamil Ali Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
“It takes tremendous courage, persistence, and perseverance to pursue your ultimate purpose.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
“This is what is called "honor among thieves," for the really dangerous people are those who do not recognize that they are thieves— the… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
But I think that of all the literature that I studied, the book that did more than any other to fire my enthusiasm was… — Kwame Nkrumah Copy Share Image
“The spirit of our accurate and exact philosophy is outraged by conclusions that contradict each other so glaringly.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I never knew any man who had once tasted the sweetness of experimental knowledge, that ever afterward fasted after ye Vapour garlick and onions… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
“I fight with love and kindness as my weapons and compassion as my defense.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
