Boat Quote by Willard Van Orman Quine

There is a continuum between science and philosophy. As Fichte said (but did not practice), philosophy should be the science of sciences.

— Mario Bunge

Philosophy is that part of science which at present people chose to have opinions about, but which they have no knowledge about. Therefore every…

— Bertrand Russell

Philosophy was once considered science.

— P. J. O'Rourke

We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed…

— Hannes Alfven

I don't think there's an interesting boundary between philosophy and science. Science is totally beholden to philosophy. There are philosophical assumptions in science and…

— Sam Harris

For one thing, I think that there are questions which philosophers raise which, although science bears on them, are not typically the central focus…

— Hilary Kornblith

There is a worry that many have expressed that, on the naturalistic way of approaching philosophical questions, philosophy will somehow be co-opted by science.…

— Hilary Kornblith

I think philosophers can do things akin to theoretical scientists, in that, having read about empirical data, they too can think of what hypotheses…

— Robert Nozick

Philosophy is empty if it isn't based on science. Science discovers, philosophy interprets.

— Albert Einstein

“Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art: It arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement. Philosophy is a hypothetical interpretation of the…

— Will Durant

For a very long time science and philosophy were considered part of the same continuum and it was only within the last few hundred…

— Brad Warner