Generality Quote by William Barrett

“Philosophy limits the disputable sphere of natural science.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“...philosophers will forever wrangle about the true nature of science as a prelude to their dream of the final knockdown argument which will silence…

— Philip Mirowski

“A truly scientific philosophy will be more humble, more piecemeal, more arduous, offering less glitter of outward mirage to flatter fallacious hopes, but more…

— Bertrand Russell

“The sciences need philosophy; philosophy, in turn, needs the sciences. On both sides, certain naive minds, too confident in their own forces and satisfied…

— Fulton J. Sheen

“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

“Science is about reading the world from a gradually widening point of view.”

— Carlo Rovelli

“Philosophy, like science, is only a collection of hypotheses, introduced for the usefulness of the ensemble, or for economy of thought.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

The triumph of science has been mainly due to its practical utility, and there has been an attempt to divorce this aspect from that…

— Bertrand Russell

“Science…means unresting endeavor and continually progressing development toward an aim which the poetic intuition may apprehend, but the intellect can never fully grasp.”

— Max Planck

“Nothing is stopping you except the names and identities that you've given to yourself. If you identify yourself as a scientist, you can't go…

— Shunya

“Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value, elly judgments of all kinds remain necessary.”

— Albert Einstein

“Science may be defined as the reduction of multiplicity to unity. It seeks to explain the endlessly diverse phenomena of nature by ignoring the…

— Aldous Huxley