Development Quote by Stephen Hawking

“The people who actually make the advances in theoretical physics don't think in these categories that the philosophers and the historians of science subsequently…

— Stephen Hawking

It's something that's very often said that philosophy, as opposed to science, never makes any progress.

— Rebecca Goldstein

“[...] Traditionally these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead. Philosophy has not kept up with modern developments in science, particularly physics. Scientists…

— Stephen Hawking

The scientists often have more unfettered imaginations than current philosophers do. Relativity theory came as a complete surprise to philosophers, and so did quantum…

— Robert Nozick

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

— Peter Singer

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

— Thomas E. Mann

Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.

— Kary Mullis

If one looks at the works of Newton to Einstein, they were never scientists in the way modernity understands the term.

— Bruno Latour

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

— Sam Houssami

Science has not solved problems, only shifted the points of problems.

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

I have tried to read philosophers of all ages and have found many illuminating ideas but no steady progress toward deeper knowledge and understanding.…

— Max Born

Philosophy used to be a field that had content, but then 'natural philosophy' became physics, and physics has only continued to make inroads. Every…

— Lawrence M. Krauss