Philosophy of science Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Philosophy of science.
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“Methodology”
“Metaphysics”
“Mathematics”
“Epistemology”
“History of science”
“Inductive reasoning”
“Scientific Revolution”
“Unification in science and mathematics”
“Relationship between religion and science”
“Wikicommons: position=right”
“General Philosophy of Science*a href="https://philpapers.org/" target="_blank">PhilPapers”
“The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good.”
“Category Archives: Philosophy of Science*em>Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy”
“Philosophy of Science and the Sciences*a href="https://inpho.cogs.indiana.edu/" target="_blank">Indiana Philosophy Ontology (InPhO) project”
“Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature. Beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.”
“Search: Philosophy of science*a href="https://plato.stanford.edu/" target="_blank">Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy”
“There is a great difference between the Idols of the human mind and the Ideas of the divine. That is to say, between certain empty dogmas, and the true signatures and marks set upon the works of creation as they are found in nature.”
“Those who have taken upon them to lay down the law of nature as a thing already searched out and understood, whether they have spoken in simple assurance or professional affectation, have therein done philosophy and the sciences great injury.”
“[W]e offer this work as mathematical principles of philosophy. For all the difficulty of philosophy seems to consist in this, from the phenomena of motions to investigate the forces of Nature, and then from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena.”
“[T]he only thing that I believe that I am really fit for is the investigation of abstract truth, and the more abstract the better. If there is any science that I am capable of promoting, I think it is the science of science itself, the science of investigation, of method.”