Philosophy Quotes - Page 16

• What chemists took from Dalton was not new experimental laws but a new way of practicing chemistry (he himself called it the 'new system of chemical philosophy'), and this proved so rapidly fruitful that only a few of the older chemists in France and Britain were able to resist it.

  Thomas Kuhn

  Science, Law, France

  Thomas S. Kuhn (2012). “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.133, University of Chicago Press

  52 Copy quote

  Show source

• Our present work sets forth mathematical principles of philosophy. For the basic problem of philosophy seems to be to discover the forces of nature from the phenomena of motions and then to demonstrate the other phenomena from these forces. It is to these ends that the general propositions in books 1 and 2 are directed, while in book 3 our explanation of the system of the world illustrates these propositions.

  Isaac Newton

  Nature, Book, Science

  Sir Isaac Newton (2014). “Newton: Philosophical Writings”, p.60, Cambridge University Press

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• The earth's becoming at a particular period the residence of human beings, was an era in the moral, not in the physical world, that our study and contemplation of the earth, and the laws which govern its animate productions, ought no more to be considered in the light of a disturbance or deviation from the system, than the discovery of the satellites of Jupiter should be regarded as a physical event in the history of those heavenly bodies, however influential they may have become from that time in advancing the progress of sound philosophy among men.

  Charles Lyell

  Science, Men, Light

  Charles Lyell, M. J. S. Rudwick (1990). “Principles of Geology”, p.163, University of Chicago Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Wonder was the motive that led people to philosophy ... wonder is a kind of desire in knowledge. It is the cause of delight because it carries with it the hope of discovery.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Knowledge, Science, Discovery

  6 Copy quote

• While Newton seemed to draw off the veil from some of the mysteries of nature, he showed at the same time the imperfections of the mechanical philosophy; and thereby restored her ultimate secrets to that obscurity, in which they ever did and ever will remain.

  David Hume

  Nature, Science, Imperfection

  David Hume (1759). “The Commonwealth, and the reigns of Charles II. and James II”, p.450

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?

  Richard Courant

  Science, Sensual, Experience

  "What is Mathematics?" by Richard Courant, (p. xix), 1941.

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• I also ask you my friends not to condemn me entirely to the mill of mathematical calculations, and allow me time for philosophical speculations, my only pleasures.

  Johannes Kepler

  Philosophical, Science, Pleasure

  5 Copy quote

• The philosophies behind meditation are very current today and are a way of finding some sort of peace.

  Orlando Bloom

  Meditation, Today, Way

  5 Copy quote

• The secret of life is in art.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Art, History

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.41, Wordsworth Editions

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

• If we are going to save America and evangelize the world, we cannot accommodate secular philosophies that are diametrically opposed to Christian truth.

  Jerry Falwell

  Christian, America, Religion

  4 Copy quote

• Atheism is based upon a materialist philosophy, which holds that nothing exists but natural phenomena. There are no supernatural forces or entities, nor can there be any. Nature simply exists.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Supernatural Forces, Religion, Atheism

  12 Copy quote

• Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Views, Religion, Atheism

  97 Copy quote

• We are a company that lives and breathes a philosophy that's centered on not only making sound business decisions but also personally and professionally finding ways to contribute to the well being of society. We are also a company that understands community.

  Magic Johnson

  Business, Community, Decision

  4 Copy quote

• In good philosophy, the word cause ought to be reserved to the single Divine impulse that has formed the universe.

  Louis Pasteur

  Atheism, Causes, Divine

  4 Copy quote

• I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, then that this universall Frame, is without a Minde. And therefore, God never wrought Miracle, to convince Atheisme, because his Ordinary Works Convince it. It is true, that a little Philosophy inclineth Mans Minde to Atheisme; But depth in Philosophy, bringeth Mens Mindes about to Religion.

  Francis Bacon

  Believe, Miracle, Atheism

  Essays "Of Atheism" (1625)

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Science is a human activity, and the best way to understand it is to understand the individual human beings who practise it. Science is an art form and not a philosophical method. The great advances in science usually result from new tools rather than from new doctrines. ... Every time we introduce a new tool, it always leads to new and unexpected discoveries, because Nature's imagination is richer than ours.

  Freeman Dyson

  Nature, Art, Philosophical

  4 Copy quote

• When you have a great audience, you can just keep going and finding new things.

  Robin Williams

  Audience, Findings, New Things

  5 Copy quote

• For a while you get mad, then you get over it.

  Robin Williams

  Mad, Over It, Get Over

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm a very tolerant man, except when it comes to holding a grudge.

  Robin Williams

  Inspiration, Men, Grudge

  "Fictional character: Popeye". "Popeye", www.imdb.com. 1980.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The only weapon we have is comedy.

  Robin Williams

  Weapons, Comedy

  5 Copy quote

• Crying never helped anybody do anything, okay? You have a problem, you face it like a man.

  Robin Williams

  Men, Faces, Problem

  "Fictional character: Alan Parrish". "Jumanji", www.imdb.com. 1995.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The human spirit is more powerful than any drug - and that is what needs to be nourished: with work, play, friendship, family. These are the things that matter.

  Robin Williams

  Life, Powerful, Play

  "Fictional character: Dr Malcolm Sayer". "Awakenings", www.imdb.com. 1990.

  36 Copy quote

  Show source

• Know the philosophy, know the details, and ignore everything in the middle.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Inspirational, Details, Middle

  16 Copy quote

• I think you too recognize the important relationship between philosophy and art, and it is just this relationship that most painters deny. The great masters do grasp it, unconsciously; but I believe that a painter's conscious spiritual knowledge will have a much greater influence upon his art, and that it would be due only to a weakness in him, or lack of genius, should this spiritual knowledge be harmful to his art.

  Piet Mondrian

  Spiritual, Art, Believe

  Piet Mondrian, Harry Holtzman, Martin S. James (1986). “The new art--the new life: the collected writings of Piet Mondrian”, Twayne Pub

  42 Copy quote

  Show source

• All our philosophy is as dry as dust if it is not immediately translated into some act of living service.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspiration, Dust, Addiction

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: Selected letters”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source