Accounts Quote by L.A. Paul

The distinctive contribution that metaphysics makes to our understanding of reality is first that it considers questions about features of reality that the sciences…

— L.A. Paul

“In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down, as far…

— Niels Bohr

In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down, so far…

— Niels Bohr

For example, the wind has its reasons. We just don't notice as we go about our lives. But then, at some point, we are…

— Haruki Murakami

I consider then, that generally speaking, to render a reason of an effect or Phaenomenon, is to deduce It from something else in Nature…

— Robert Boyle

This is the key of modern science and is the beginning of the true understanding of nature. This idea. That to look at the…

— Richard P. Feynman

To gauge the understanding and insight that metaphysics provides is to ask whether, in the final analysis, it helps us to cope with our…

— Rudolph Rummel

Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points concepts and truth and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them.

— Aristotle

We must understand the motives and forces of our time and analyze their structure from three points of view: the material, the functional, and…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Experience has shown that science frequently develops most fruitfully once we learn to examine the things that seem the simplest, instead of those that…

— Marvin Minsky

The schematicism by which our understanding deals with the phenomenal world ... is a skill so deeply hidden in the human soul that we…

— Immanuel Kant

It is thus necessary to examine all things according to their essence, to infer from every species such true and well established propositions as…

— Maimonides