Able Quote by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Why is it apparently the philosopher who is expected to be "easier" and not some scientist or other who is even more inaccessible to…

— Jacques Derrida

Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, these three, are in a class by themselves among the great mathematicians, and it is not for ordinary mortals to…

— Eric Temple Bell

Thus metaphysics and mathematics are, among all the sciences that belong to reason, those in which imagination has the greatest role. I beg pardon…

— Jean le Rond d'Alembert

The science of the church is neglected for the study of geometry, and they lose sight of Heaven while they are employed in measuring…

— Edward Gibbon

Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes ... We cannot understand it if we do not first learn…

— Galileo Galilei

Philosophy used to be a field that had content, but then 'natural philosophy' became physics, and physics has only continued to make inroads. Every…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

Everybody allows that to know any other science you must have first studied it, and that you can only claim to express a judgment…

— Anonymous

[The works of Archimedes] are without exception, monuments of mathematical exposition; the gradual revelation of the plan of attack, the masterly ordering of the…

— Thomas Little Heath

It has been the error of the schools to teach astronomy, and all the other sciences, and subjects of natural philosophy, as accomplishments only;…

— Thomas Paine

There are metaphysical problems, problems of human existence, that philosophy has never known how to grasp in all their concreteness and that only the…

— Milan Kundera

“ Euclid 's Elements has been for nearly twenty-two centuries the encouragement and guide of that scientific thought which is one thing with the…

— William Kingdon Clifford

Even those who specialize in the history of philosophy often ignore the political and cultural context, and the natural world in which their philosophers…

— Dale Jamieson