Natural philosophy Quote by Neal Stephenson

“What we call ‘natural’ is frequently no more than bad theory.”

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“Naturalism, therefore, can never be anything more than a guiding prejudice, an established principle only in the sense that it must be indefensibly presumed…

— David Bentley Hart

We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed…

— Hannes Alfven

“Philosophy limits the disputable sphere of natural science.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“naturalism, alone among all considered philosophical attempts to describe the shape of reality, is radically insufficient in its explanatory range.”

— David Bentley Hart

“In practice people who study philosophy too long become very odd birds, not to say thoroughly vicious; while even those who are the best…

— Plato

“Natural philosophy is the genius that has regulated my fate.”

— Mary Shelly

“Historically, philosophy does not have an impressive track record of answering questions about natural world in a decisive manner.”

— Christof Koch

“if philosophy develops in the right ways, it might help ease the conflicts between rival dogmatic certainties. But, even if this hope is right,…

— Jonathan Glover

In our greatest universities, naturalism - the doctrine that nature is all there is - is the virtually unquestioned assumption that underlies not only…

— Philip Johnson

“Philosophy is difficult, like looking directly at the tip of your nose is difficult! We rely in every act of knowing on foundational philosophical…

— Esther Lightcap Meek

“Naturalism is a picture of the whole of reality that cannot, according to its own intrinsic premises, address the being of the whole; it…

— David Bentley Hart