#metaphysics

He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity. ↗

— Maimonides

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Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics. ↗

— Maimonides

#branches #consequently #first #human #lastly

It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics. ↗

— Gabriel Marcel

#metaphysics #probity #right #scientific

So Whitehead's metaphysics doesn't fit very well on to physics as we understand the process of the world. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#metaphysics #physics #process #understand #very

The verbal interpretation, on the other hand, i.e. the metaphysics of quantum physics, is on far less solid ground. In fact, in more than forty years physicists have not been able to provide a clear metaphysical model. ↗

— Erwin Schrodinger

#been #clear #fact #far #far less

Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us. ↗

— Huston Smith

#into #lured #metaphysics #new #newtonian

One possibility is: God is nothing but the power of the universe to organize itself. ↗

— Lee Smolin

#cosmology #metaphysics #physics #science #theology

Perception is the illusion that gives all matter mass," The Flight of the Eagle A.K. Luthienne ↗

— A.K. Luthienne

#alchemy-of-the-word #metaphysics #science #science

Energy defines life not flesh and blood. WE are infinite energies experiencing infinity. Through a finite aperture. ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#life

High towers, and metaphysically-great men resembling them, round both of which there is commonly much wind, are not for me. My place is the fruitful bathos, the bottom-land, of experience; and the word transcendental, does not signify something passing beyond all experience, but something that indeed precedes it a priori, but that is intended simply to make cognition of experience possible. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#experience