Comfort Quote by Willard Van Orman Quine

Notwithstanding their attacks on the basic conception of rationalism, on synthetic a priori judgments, that is, material propositions that cannot be contradicted by any…

— Max Horkheimer

Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and calculable.

— Francis Parker Yockey

“Empiricism teaches that there is a real world of fixed things on the outside and that ideas of these outside things are stamped on…

— Holly Estil Cunningham

The new coherent picture is not yet available. With all their immense empirical success, G(eneral)R(elativity) and Q(uantum)M(echanics) have left us with an understanding of…

— Carlo Rovelli

The laws of physics that we regard as 'sacred,' as immutable, are anything but.

— John Archibald Wheeler

The whole machinery of our intelligence, our general ideas and laws, fixed and external objects, principles, persons, and gods, are so many symbolic, algebraic…

— George Santayana

“Physical experience is the translation of phenomena into symbolic language, and the law is the creation of the wind or a symbol.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

“arguing that our external physical reality is a mathematical structure,”

— Max Tegmark

The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.

— Gabriel Marcel

“It is a misleading tendency of our intellect to conceive things as if they were immutable and constant. It often leaves changing and concrete…

— Kaiten Nukariya

Philosophers and theologians have yet to learn that a physical fact is as sacred as a moral principle. Our own nature demands from us…

— Louis Agassiz

“I’m arguing that our external physical reality is a mathematical structure, which is by definition an abstract, immutable entity existing outside of space and…

— Max Tegmark