Claims Quote by Rupert Sheldrake

The rejection of all abstract formalism. Materialism reminds every science of its real source: the world men transform. No science can, whether in its…

— Louis Althusser

Science is the poetry of reality.

— Richard Dawkins

Science is part of the reality of living; it is the what, the how, and the why of everything in our experience.

— Rachel Carson

I agree that science is the best way of understanding the natural world, and therefore that we have reason to believe what the best…

— T. M. Scanlon

“in our materialist culture, such alternate forms of knowledge, whatever they might be, tend to undergo a materialist reduction. This is simply a sociological…

— William A. Dembski

Science is practical philosophy.

— Rene Descartes

Since science is essentially objective, involving the study of how things actually are, "materialism" would therefore seem to be its antithesis, since its starting…

— Melanie Phillips

Now these two questions Does there exist a material reality distinct from sensible appearances? and What is the nature of reality? do not have…

— Pierre Duhem

Much of contemporary science is really the length and shadow of the technology we apply.

— Erez Lieberman Aiden

Science is a kind of glorified tailoring enterprise, a method for taking measurements that describe something ? reality ? that may not be understood at all.

— Michael Crichton

“Scientific materialism is neither an implication nor a presupposition of doing science. Rather it is a metaphysical and sometimes religious stance that some people…

— Angus Menuge

Science...has become identified with a philosophy known as materialism or scientific naturalism. This philosophy insists that nature is all there is, or at least…

— Phillip E. Johnson