Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Quotes

Science can't tell you why anything happens.

It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.

Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.

What science cannot discover, mankind cannot know.

Physics is unable to stand on its own feet, but needs a metaphysics on which to support itself, whatever fine airs it may assume towards the latter.

Life's scientific, but we don't know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.

No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.

Science is the art of creating suitable illusions which the fool believes or argues against, but the wise man enjoys for their beauty or their ingenuity, without being blind to the fact that they are human veils and curtains concealing the abysmal darkness of the unknowable

A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.

While it is true that science cannot decide questions of value, that is because they cannot be intellectually decided at all, and lie outside the realm of truth and falsehood. Whatever knowledge is attainable, must be attained by scientific methods; and what science cannot discover, mankind cannot know.

Scientists don't read theology; they don't read philosophy. It doesn't make any difference to what they're doing - for better or worse, it may not be a value judgment, but it's true.

Studying physics, mathematics, and chemistry is worshipping God.

Science is not wisdom.

Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.

Philosophers of science have repeatedly demonstrated that more than one theoretical construction can always be placed upon a given collection of data.

But if science may be said to be blind without philosophy, it is true also that philosophy is virtually empty without science.

Belief has no place as far as science reaches, and may be first permitted to take root where science stops.

Until the seventeenth century there was no concept of evidence with which to pose the problem of induction!

Belief cannot be reckoned with in terms of science, for science and faith are mutually exclusive.

Belief may be a regrettably unavoidable biological weakness to be kept under the control of criticism: but commitment is for Popper an outright crime.

Epistemology without contact with science becomes an empty scheme. Science without epistemology is-insofar as it is thinkable at all-primitive and muddled.

For us scientists, on the other wing, life is not quite so simple. Because we learn the unknown. Unlike, hah-hah, our esteemed friends the philosophers, who learn the unknowable.

Most geometricians, chemists, mathematicians, and great scientists submit religion to reason only to discover a problem as unsolvable as that of squaring a circle.

It has often been said, and certainly not without justification, that the man of science is a poor philosopher.