Philosophy Quote by Rebecca Goldstein

Science never makes an advance until philosophy authorizes it to do so.

— Thomas E. Mann

Science does not stand still, and neither does philosophy, although the latter has a tendency to walk in circles.

— Peter Singer

Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.

— Richard Rorty

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.

— Stephen Hawking

The progress of mankind is due exclusively to the progress of natural sciences, not to morals, religion or philosophy.

— Anonymous

Philosophy was once considered science.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Progress, then, is a property of the evolution of life as a whole by almost any conceivable intuitive standard.... let us not pretend to…

— E. O. Wilson

All the progress we have made in philosophy ... is the result of that methodical skepticism which is the element of human freedom.

— Charles Sanders Peirce

Philosophy is empty if it isn't based on science. Science discovers, philosophy interprets.

— Albert Einstein

“One view is that philosophy is a kind of halfway house for questions that have not yet yielded to the scientific method.”

— Ray Kurzweil

science progresses by trial and error, and when it is forbidden to admit error there can be no progress.

— Joan Robinson

Science repudiates philosophy. In other words, it has never cared to justify its truth or explain its meaning.

— Alfred North Whitehead