Century Quote by James Jeans

“There is no such thing as philosophy-free science; there is only science whose philosophical baggage is taken on board without examination. —Daniel Dennett, Darwin's…

— Daniel C. Dennett

Our main conclusions about the state are that a minimal state, limited, to the narrow functions of protection against force, theft, fraud, enforcement of…

— Robert Nozick

The plain fact is that there are no conclusions.

— James Jeans

Science fiction is very well suited to asking philosophical questions; questions about the nature of reality, what it means to be human, how do…

— Ted Chiang

From my undergraduate days, I've always been interested in the major philosophical questions that don't seem to have an answer that everyone agrees on.

— E. L. Doctorow

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

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

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