Natural science Quote by Ludwig Wittgenstein Download Open image ““Philosophy limits the disputable sphere of natural science.”” — Ludwig Wittgenstein ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Natural science Nature Philosophy Science
“...philosophers will forever wrangle about the true nature of science as a prelude to their dream of the final knockdown argument which will silence… — Philip Mirowski Copy Share Image
“The philosopher seeks a generality beyond the boundaries of science; he attempts to frame a comprehensive and coherent framework of ideas within which the… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
“natural science is likely to be soon exhausted. Passing by many particulars of the discipline” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“A truly scientific philosophy will be more humble, more piecemeal, more arduous, offering less glitter of outward mirage to flatter fallacious hopes, but more… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Nothing is so fatal to the progress of the human mind as to suppose our views of science are ultimate; that there are no… — Humphrey Davy Copy Share Image
“Thus natural science is not a way of knowing the real world; its value lies not in its truth but in its utility; by… — R.G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
“It was perhaps inevitable that a reverence for all things ‘scientific’ should be accompanied by some scorn for ‘natural’ processes.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In our greatest universities, naturalism - the doctrine that nature is all there is - is the virtually unquestioned assumption that underlies not only… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
“Science gives up to religion that which cannot be known, and as it does not know what it is, that cannot be known, it… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
“But some of the greatest achievements in philosophy could only be compared with taking up some books which seemed to belong together, and putting… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“This is connected with the conception of naming as a process that is, so to speak, occult. Naming seems to be a _strange_ connection… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Freud's fanciful pseudo-explanations (precisely because they are brilliant) perform a disservice. Now any ass has these pictures available to use in "explaining" symptoms of… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
A teacher who can show good, or indeed astounding results while he is teaching, is still not on that account a good teacher, for… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Where does our investigation get its importance from, since it seems only to destroy everything interesting, that is, all that is great and important?… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If you ask ... the man in the street ... the human significance of mathematics, the answer of the world will be, that mathematics… — Cassius Jackson Keyser Copy Share Image
I may remind you that history is not a branch of literature. The facts of history, like the facts of geology or astronomy, can… — J. B. Bury Copy Share Image
“The Age of Intellect is accompanied by surprising advances in natural science. In the ninth century, for example, in the age of Mamun, the… — John Bagot Glubb Copy Share Image
The most powerful influence exercised by the Arabs on general natural physics was that directed to the advances of chemistry ; a science for… — Alexander von Humboldt Copy Share Image
An important tradition within westren philosophy believes in the primacy of natural science as a guide to truth. This is sometimes met with the… — J. J. C. Smart Copy Share Image
The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and there is no rational explanation of it. — Eugene Wigner Copy Share Image
The methods of the natural sciences cannot be applied to human behavior because this behaviorlacks the peculiarity that characterizes events in the field of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The tendencies are considerably weaker in the natural sciences, which, for the past several centuries, have survived and flourished through such constant challenge, and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A famous name has this peculiarity that it becomes gradually smaller especially in natural sciences where each succeeding discovery invariably overshadows what precedes. — Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff Copy Share Image
Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on. The teacher, in short, can use reading to introduce… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The progress of mankind is due exclusively to the progress of natural sciences, not to morals, religion or philosophy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
