Civilization Quote by Satish Kumar

Before the scientific rationalism took hold of our minds and before we became succumbed to a materialistic worldview, the Western philosophy was holistic and…

— Satish Kumar

Western science is approaching a paradigm shift of unprecedented proportions, one that will change our concepts of reality and of human nature, bridge the…

— Stanislav Grof

If the West can claim superiority in anything, it is . . . in science and scientific technique.

— Bertrand Russell

It's sort of another innovation, probably a good innovation, of Western culture to separate the ideas between science and philosophy, but it's important to…

— Brad Warner

An important tradition within westren philosophy believes in the primacy of natural science as a guide to truth. This is sometimes met with the…

— J. J. C. Smart

One of the greatest accomplishments of Western civilization is the development of the scientific method and the scientific disposition, which entail the development of…

— Heather Mac Donald

Because this is the world that science built, with the henchmen of capitalism and Christianity.

— Terence McKenna

By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified. Today the greatest divide within humanity is not…

— E. O. Wilson

Our western science is a child of moral virtues; and it must now become the father of further moral virtues if its extraordinary material…

— Arnold J. Toynbee

For 200 years, the West has been so dominant in the world that it's not really needed to understand other cultures, other civilizations. Because,…

— Martin Jacques

It is true that many scientists are not philosophically minded and have hitherto shown much skill and ingenuity but little wisdom.

— Max Born

We live in a democracy and I do not understand why highly respected scientists from top international branches are not able express themselves!

— Nina Hagen