Philip Kitcher Quotes

I kind of liked the method of the seventies where they would throw a little bit of money at a hundred different groups - not millions of dollars per group, but, you know, a few thousand. Throw them in the studio, and if five of those groups came out with a hit record it would be money well spent.

Knowing a deep thing well, which is what science asks of its practitioners, is an empowerment that is very profound. It's a liberation.

What I thought was so great about Rise [of the Planet of the Apes ] was that it wasn't a retelling; it was an entering of the universe at a different point. So it's Planet of the Apes. We already know the ending. There's no mystery in that! It becomes Planet of the Apes. So it's not about what is at the end; it's about how did we get there? And that enabled something that was totally fresh, which was an ape-point-of-view movie.

The views of the Contact Group member-states must be taken seriously, as well as the guidelines set out in their document on Kosovo, which clearly says that the province should not be divided.

[Warren Buffett ] met with all sorts of different groups about a lot of different things, but yes, he took the time, he listened and he wanted to understand about some of the different diseases and the strength of the American role in doing all these things.

Honest people, knowledgeable people, really well-informed people can have very different views about what the right measures are on national security.

[Rural voters] have a different view of the world than people do in these urban centers.

I was trying to show colour, but I realized at the private view that the public were prisoners of a preconceived point of view and that, confronted with all these surfaces of different colours, they responded far more to the inter-relationship of the different propositions, they reconstituted the elements of a decorative polychromy.

There's been essentially the same analysis over and over again and very little allowance made for different views and interpretations and reflections.

Originality houses many rooms, and the views from the windows are all different.

With the same honest views, the most honest men often form different conclusions.

There are different views about what's good for our country, our economy, and our leadership in the world.

When I came out of the Depression, I came out of it with a different point of view as to what constituted success. And that was even just even personal success.

We [with Donald Trump] just have a different view about what's best for growing the economy, how we make investments that will actually produce jobs and rising incomes.

The benefit of an open town hall meeting is one that you get to hear a lot of different views, and two it has credibility.

Natural science is founded on minute critical views of the general order of events taking place upon our globe, corrected, enlarged, or exalted by experiments, in which the agents concerned are placed under new circumstances, and their diversified properties separately examined. The body of natural science, then, consists of facts; is analogy,-the relation of resemblance of facts by which its different parts are connected, arranged, and employed, either for popular use, or for new speculative improvements.

As an independent, my views, in fact, are a little bit different than many of my Democratic colleagues.

If you work for a team, you have a different view, if you own a team you have a radically different view.

Our go-to source is no longer dictated by a small group of cable news outlets. We have to expand our view. Sometimes, a story is made and breaks on Twitter. We have to find a way to react to that, to consume and also disseminate the information from Twitter, which is not an easy thing to do.

Education is the key. With a really good education, you have a much broader view of the world. Well-educated people can seek help for themselves. They can help others.

Death by hanging... well, in view of the whole situation, I never expected anything different. It's all right.

There is some truth in everything. Views and opinions are different aspects. Do not quarrel with others.

As far as ideology or political beliefs are concerned, countries are very different.

If you are a minority or an interest group, the Democrats will hold the debate at your house. Whereas Republicans take a slightly different approach: they have a big tent - you're just not allowed in it.

With the socialization of the health care system through institutions such as Medicaid and Medicare and the regulation of the insurance industry (by restricting an insurer’s right of refusal: to exclude any individual risk as uninsurable, and discriminate freely, according to actuarial methods, between different group risks) a monstrous machinery of wealth and income redistribution at the expense of responsible individuals and low-risk groups in favor of irresponsible actors and high-risk groups has been put in motion.