Nature Quote by Philip Mirowski

“When it comes to science, philosophers stand still.”

— Sam Houssami

“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

“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

“Philosophy limits the disputable sphere of natural science.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Science is an ongoing process. It never ends. There is no single ultimate truth to be achieved, after which all the scientists can retire.”

— Carl Sagan

The triumph of science has been mainly due to its practical utility, and there has been an attempt to divorce this aspect from that…

— Bertrand Russell

“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

“Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art: It arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement. Philosophy is a hypothetical interpretation of the…

— Will Durant

“Science promised us truth, or at least a knowledge of such relations as our intelligence can seize: it never promised us peace or happiness.…

— Gustave Le Bon

“Science is an ongoing process. It never ends. There is no single ultimate truth to be achieved, after which all the scientists can retire.…

— Carl Sagan

“Science is no inexorable march to truth, mediated by the collection of objective information and the destruction of ancient superstition. Scientists, as ordinary human…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“Science is not separate from politics. As much as I would like it to be a pure thing, existing only in some intellectual realm…

— Marie Brennan