Nancy Pearcey Quotes

Money commands everything because that's our interpretation of capitalism... what kind of world is that? It's a very uncomfortable interpretation of a human being. We have been turned into robots.

Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture - academia, the most powerful media and many of our courts.

All you are is a bag of particles acting out the laws of physics. That to me is pretty clear.

If minds are wholly dependent on brains and brains on biochemistry, and biochemistry (in the long run) on the meaningless flux of the atoms, I cannot understand how the thought of those minds should have any more significance than the sound of the wind in the trees.

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

We must believe in free will, we have no choice.

Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.

Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.

There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

I once did a radio program with a famous materialist, that is to say a scientist who believed that absolutely everything was physical and that all emotions were reductive to little electrical impulses in your neurons. And I found that I didn't believe that. But what the emotions really are, I don't have an alternative theory.

No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.

A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.

Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.

If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.

We have to believe in free will. We’ve got no choice.

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots.

Modern physics often advances only by sacrificing some of our traditional philosophical convictions

I make no apologies in admitting that I take very seriously the dehumanizing dangers in our tendency in modern science to make man over into the image of the machine, into the image of the techniques by which we study him.

We are more like vehicles, a part of our mensch machine, our man-machine. Sometimes we play the music, sometimes the music plays us, sometimes... it plays.

From my point of view, compatibilism is a little like saying: a puppet is free so long as it loves its strings.

The first dogma which I came to disbelieve was that of free will. It seemed to me that all notions of matter were determined by the laws of dynamics and could not therefore be influenced by human wills.

To believe that mind is all, that thought is all is only a higher materialism.

Greed in human nature may now come near to enslaving all humanity by means of the Machine - so fast and far has progress gone with it. This will be evident to anyone who stops to study the modern mechanistic Moloch and takes time to view it in its larger aspects.

Naturalism and materialism mean essentially the same thing.