Quote by Voltaire Download Open image ““Pangloss taught metaphysico-theologo-cosmonigology.”” — Voltaire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“If we accept that Metaphysics studies the origin and structure of the world from beyond the natural or the physical to the supernatural knowledge… — Tasha Heart Copy Share Image
It would be foolish to give credit to Euclid for pangeometrical conceptions; the idea of geometry deifferent from the common-sense one never occurred to… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
“Cosmology is the study of the universe as a whole, including its birth and perhaps its ultimate fate.” — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“For Paley, a watch is purposeful and thus must have been created by a being with a purpose. A watch needs a watchmaker, just as a world needs a world-maker—God. Yet both Wallace and Paley might have heeded the lesson from Voltaire's Candide (1759), in which Dr. Pangloss, a professor of "metaphysico-theology-cosmolonigology," through reason, logic, and analogy "proved" that this… — Michael Shermer Copy Share
“Gut?” “General Unified Theory.” Kohler quipped. “The theory of everything.” — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“Metanarratives give meaning to individual events, tying them together in the broadest possible fashion. They help structure all of life around a pre-ordained trajectory… — Heath White Copy Share Image
“We see, as in the universes of the material kosmos, after meteorological, vegetable, and animal cycles, man at last arises, born through them, to… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“The universe is one great kindergarten. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“The unfinished nature of phenomenology and the inchoate style in which it proceeds are not the signs of failure; they were inevitable because phenomenology’s… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
“What are any of the disciplines but a way in which people trying to make sense of the world or the universe?” — Joan Countryman Copy Share Image
“Science’s best-known victories were those of Copernicanism and Darwinism.” — Gary B. Ferngren Copy Share Image
“One of the most intriguing things about the universe, which probably cannot be explained by scientific investigations, is that it exists and we, who… — Jamal Nazrul Islam Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not? — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
