Attitude Quote by Rebecca Goldstein

“I had been reading Wittgenstein. There are no philosophical problems, only linguistic misunderstandings. Was this so? If so, why write at such length about…

— Joyce Carol Oates

One of the peculiar features of philosophical questions is how eager people are to offer solutions that miss the point of the questions. Sometimes…

— Rebecca Goldstein

One of the recurring philosophical questions is: 'Does a falling tree in the forest make a sound when there is no one to hear?'…

— Terry Pratchett

“Our choice is not whether or not to be interested in philosophical questions, but whether or not to become conscious of the fact that,…

— Eben Alexander

Science fiction is very well suited to asking philosophical questions; questions about the nature of reality, what it means to be human, how do…

— Ted Chiang

From my undergraduate days, I've always been interested in the major philosophical questions that don't seem to have an answer that everyone agrees on.

— E. L. Doctorow

There is a worry that many have expressed that, on the naturalistic way of approaching philosophical questions, philosophy will somehow be co-opted by science.…

— Hilary Kornblith

“So, when I write a piece of fiction I select my characters and settings and so on because they have a bearing, at least…

— John Gardner

I'm not a sociologist, and the novel has often concerned itself with sociology. It's one of the generating forces that's made fiction interesting to…

— Jonathan Lethem

Philosophical questions and modes of thought just seem natural to me. They mesh with the way my mind works.

— Samuel Scheffler

The plain fact is that there are no conclusions. If we must state a conclusion, it would be that many of the former conclusions…

— James Jeans

If we do get a quantum theory of spacetime, it should answer some of the deepest philosophical questions that we have, like what happened…

— Michio Kaku