#phil

A philosopher once said, "It is necessary for the very existence of science that the same conditions always produce the same results." Well, they don't! ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#science #science

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#philosophy #science #science

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#philosophy #science #sense-of-wonder #spirituality #science

For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then? ↗

— George Orwell

#logic #metaphysics #ontology #philosophy #psychology

Philosophy and science have not always been friendly toward the idea of God, the reason being they are dedicated to the task of accounting for things and are impatient with anything that refuses to give an account of itself. The philosopher and the scientist will admit that there is much that they do not know; but that is quite another thing from admitting there is something which they can never know, which indeed they have no technique for discovering. ↗

— A.W. Tozer

#incomprehension #philosophy #science #science

Which came first, the mind or the idea of the mind? Have you never wondered? They arrived together. The mind is an idea. ↗

— Bernard Beckett

#science-fiction #science

A scientist may not be sure of the answer, but he's often sure he can find one. And that's a condition which is clearly not enjoyed by philosophy. ↗

— B.F. Skinner

#philosophy #science #science

With subjectivism in philosophy, anarchism in politics goes hand in hand. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bertrand... ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#anarchism

Cannibals? Who is not a cannibal? I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Fejee that salted down a lean missionary in his cellar against a coming famine; it will be more tolerable for that provident Fejee, I say, in the day of judgement, than for thee, civilized and enlightened gourmand, who nailest geese to the ground and feastest on their bloated livers in thy pate de fois gras. ↗

— Herman Melville

#historical #philosophy #historical

Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves to the bad habits of illogical thinking, this world has gradually become so marvelously variegated, frightful, meaningful, soulful, it has acquired color - but we have been the colorists: it is the human intellect that has made appearances appear and transported its erroneous basic conceptions into things. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#insightful #philosophy #insight