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Whatever science and philosophy may do for mankind, the world can never outgrow its need of the simplicity that is in Christ. -- Lucy Larcom
Geometry is one of the handles of science and philosophy. -- Xenocrates
The poet uses the results of science and philosophy, and generalizes their widest deductions. -- Henry David Thoreau
There is a continuum between science and philosophy. As Fichte said (but did not practice), philosophy should be the science of sciences. -- Mario Bunge
All our science and philosophy form only an island of knowledge surrounded by an ocean of mystery. The larger the island grows, the longer the shoreline where the known meets the unknown. -- Ralph Washington Sockman
[Among the books he chooses, a statesman] ought to read interesting books on history and government, and books of science and philosophy; and really good books on these subjects are as enthralling as any fiction ever written in prose or verse. -- Theodore Roosevelt
In vain do science and philosophy pose as the arbiters of the human mind, of which they are in fact only the servants. Religion has provided a conception of life, and science travels in the beaten path. Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances. -- Leo Tolstoy
My research career has been devoted to understanding human decision-making and problem-solving processes. The pursuit of this goal has led me into the fields of political science, economics, cognitive psychology, computer science and philosophy of science, among others. -- Herbert A. Simon
The lies we tell about our duty and our purposes, the meaningless words of science and philosophy, are walls that topple before a bewildered little "?why'. -- John Steinbeck
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art. -- Will Durant
Every day, I read books on philosophy and science fiction and human consciousness. -- Tom DeLonge
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. -- George Bernard Shaw
Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions. -- John Langdon
I received my high school baccalaureate diploma in Latin and Science in 1928, then my two baccalaureate diplomas in Mathematics and Philosophy in 1929. -- Maurice Allais
Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science. -- Walter Jon Williams
Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance. -- Muriel Spark
I can remember picking up weighty tomes on the history of science and the history of philosophy and reading those when I was small. -- Peter Ackroyd
But the need for conflict to expose prejudice and unclear reasoning, which is deeply embedded in my philosophy of science, has its origin in these debates. -- Robert B. Laughlin
Besides numerous science courses, I had the opportunity to study philosophy, the history of architecture, economics, and Russian history in courses taught by extraordinarily knowledgeable professors. -- Stanley B. Prusiner
Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone. -- Nathan Deal
With a background in science I am extremely interested in the meeting ground of science, theology, and philosophy, especially the ethical questions at the border of science and theology. -- Alan Lightman
I didn't understand how you could be an actor if you didn't also study philosophy and study political science, astronomy. And also just go out and live life and have experiences. -- Brit Marling
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 there's no way to get around that. -- Sam Harris
When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years. -- Denis Diderot
Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science. -- Paul Nurse
NI love watching science fiction because I feel like when it's done well, it's not just monsters, but philosophy. Really good science fiction like, '2001,' for example, or the first 'Matrix.' But it takes someone who's got a brain and thinks in order to do really good science fiction. -- Alan Arkin
I was in college, and I studied everything, but was really not good at anything until I found philosophy, and, then, political science. I thought, 'Wow, this is something I really enjoy.' I kind of got into that whole world of law and political science. I was really into it and enjoying it, and then I took an acting elective, and that was it. -- Michael Kelly
Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom. -- Will Durant
Science is practical philosophy. -- Rene Descartes
Philosophy is the true mother of science. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Philosophy is the science which considers truth. -- Aristotle
Philosophy is to science as masturbation is to sex. -- Karl Marx
Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science]. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Science fiction tends to be philosophy for stupid people. -- Chuck Klosterman
The science of love is the philosophy of the heart -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Induction is the glory of science and the scandal of philosophy. -- C. D. Broad
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know. -- Bertrand Russell
Science is what we know, and philosophy is what we don't know. -- Bertrand Russell
In the Art, Science, Philosophy and Mystic rests the temple of Wisdom. -- Samael Aun Weor
Science never makes an advance until philosophy authorizes it to do so. -- Thomas E. Mann
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Philosophy is empty if it isn't based on science. Science discovers, philosophy interprets. -- Albert Einstein
Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds. -- Richard P. Feynman
Science and knowledge, especially that of philosophy, came from the Arabs into the West. -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Philosophy as science, as serious, rigorous, indeed apodictically rigorous science -- the dream is over." -- Edmund Husserl
Philosophy as science, as serious, rigorous, indeed apodictically rigorous science -- the dream is over. -- Edmund Husserl
Science, philosophy and religion are bound to converge as they draw nearer to the whole. -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
It's something that's very often said that philosophy, as opposed to science, never makes any progress. -- Rebecca Goldstein
Philosophy is regarded by many as inseparable from speculation. ... Philosophy has proceeded from speculation to science. -- Hans Reichenbach
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science. -- Edward Abbey
The disinterested imaginative core of mythology is what develops into literature, science, philosophy. Religion is applied mythology. -- Northrop Frye
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement. -- Will Durant
In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Art, science, philosophy, religion -- each offers at best only a crude simplification of actual living experience. -- Edward Abbey
Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical. -- Rupert Sheldrake
The Sun Stone, the famous Aztec calendar, is unquestionably a perfect summary of science, philosophy, art and religion. -- Samael Aun Weor
Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind. -- Imre Lakatos
Science repudiates philosophy. In other words, it has never cared to justify its truth or explain its meaning. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Science does not stand still, and neither does philosophy, although the latter has a tendency to walk in circles. -- Peter Singer
Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion. -- Liberty Hyde Bailey
It is within science itself, and not in some prior philosophy, that reality is to be identified and described. -- Willard Van Orman Quine
It's progress I think, that science has joined philosophy, metaphysics & religion as subjects drunk people argue about in bars. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Philosophy became a gloomy science, in the labyrinth of which people vainly tried to find the exit, called The Truth. -- Edward Joseph Schwartz
It has been argued that close attention to the history of science is indispensable for doing good philosophy of science. -- Samir Okasha
This [the intelligent design movement] isn't really, and never has been, a debate about science, it's about religion and philosophy. -- Phillip E. Johnson
Philosophy stands in need of a science which shall determine the possibility, principles, and extent of human knowledge Ã priori. -- Immanuel Kant
I conceive of nothing, in religion, science or philosophy, that is more than the proper thing to wear, for a while. -- Charles Fort
Design is in everything we make, but it's also between those things. It's a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy. -- Erik Adigard
There is no such thing as philosophy-free science, just science that has been conducted without any consideration of its underlying philosophical assumptions. -- Daniel Dennett
But if science may be said to be blind without philosophy, it is true also that philosophy is virtually empty without science. -- A.J. Ayer
Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science. -- George Eliot
Ultimately there can be no disagreement between history, science, philosophy, and theology. Where there is disagreement, there is either ignorance or error. -- Mortimer Adler
Philosophy, art, and science are not the mental objects of an objectified brain but the three aspects under which the brain becomes subject. -- Gilles Deleuze
The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that's all. -- Gilles Deleuze
By philosophy, history, economics and science, all knowledge and wisdom, humanity may eventually arrive at the awareness of its own oneness.... Sudipta Das -- Sudipta Das
All we know of science or of religion comes from philosophy. It lies behind and above all other knowledge we have or use. -- L. Ron Hubbard
Without poetry our science will appear incomplete, and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry. -- Matthew Arnold
Secular humanism is avowedly non-religious. It is a eupraxsophy (good practical wisdom), which draws its basic principles and ethical values from science, ethics, and philosophy. -- Paul Kurtz
Many of our ideas of democracy, so much of our literature and philosophy and science can be traced back to roots right here in Athens. -- Barack Obama
Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting - an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified. -- James Redfield
Science without philosophy, facts without perspective and valuation, cannot save us from havoc and despair. Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom. -- Will Durant
Science was born as a result and consequence of philosophy; it cannot survive without a philosophical base. If philosophy perishes, science will be next to go. -- Ayn Rand
You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance. -- Ken Robinson
The American people need no course in philosophy or political science of church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman. -- Mario Cuomo
I wouldn't say philosophy and theology are dead. Brain science doesn't invent new philosophies but it helps remind us which of our existing philosophies are more true. -- David Brooks
The American people need no course in philosophy or political science or church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman. -- Mario Cuomo
[The monks'] credulity debased and vitiated the faculties of the mind: they corrupted the evidence of history; and superstition gradually extinguished the hostile light of philosophy and science. -- Edward Gibbon
Science is a philosophy of discovery; intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance... Something fundamamental is going on in people's minds when they confront things they don't understnd. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
I have quite a bit of sympathy for the idea that psychology and cognitive science have much to offer philosophy, and that the reverse is true as well. -- L.A. Paul
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The Biblical worldview is not given to us in the discursive and analytical language of philosophy and science, but in rich and compact language of symbolism and art. -- James Jordan
God is a synergetic experience. Science can never reveal it, philosophy can never come to it - only a poetic approach, a very passive, very loving approach, can. -- Rajneesh
Paradox is thus a much deeper and universal concept than the ancients would have dreamed. Rather than an oddity, it is a mainstay of the philosophy of science. -- William Poundstone
The deepest level of truth uncovered by science, & by philosophy, is the fundamental truth of unity. At that deepest subnuclear level of our reality, you & i are literally one. -- John Hagelin
Much of what Karl Popper contributed to the philosophy of science has now passed into mainstream thought, into the currency of that nebulous, tricky ontology known as 'common sense.' -- Liz Williams
... not only dowomen sufferindignities in daily life, but the literature of the world proclaims their inferiority and divinely decreed subjection in all history, sacred and profane, in science, philosophy, poetry, and song. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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