Knowledge Quote by Steven Weinberg

The system of Descartes... seemed to give a plausible reason for all those phenomena; and this reason seemed more just, as it is simple…

— Voltaire

“Modern philosophy from Descartes onward has asked itself the question: How can the subject really know the object?”

— William Barrett

Descartes recommended that we distrust the senses and rely on the ... use of our intellect.

— Allen W. Wood

Unlike Descartes, we own and use our beliefs of the moment, even in the midst of philosophizing, until by what is vaguely called scientific…

— Willard Van Orman Quine

“Descartes gave sight to the blind. These saw the errors of antiquity and of the sciences. The path he struck out is since become…

— Voltaire

In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter.

— James Mark Baldwin

What Descartes did was a good step. You have added much several ways, and especially in taking the colours of thin plates into philosophical…

— Isaac Newton

Descartes is rightly regarded as the father of modern philosophy primarily and generally because he helped the faculty of reason to stand on its…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Descartes's epistemology is a special case of Aristotle's virtue ethics.

— Ernest Sosa

Most impediments to scientific understanding are conceptual locks, not factual lacks. Most difficult to dislodge are those biases that escape our scrutiny because they…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“I had a pupil who turned in a couple of well-crafted essays on Descartes, subjecting "cogito ergo sum" to effective and damaging criticism...This was…

— Bryan Magee

The knowledge of Natural-History, being Observation of Matters of Fact, is more certain than most others, and in my slender Opinion, less subject to…

— Hans Sloane