Roger Penrose Quotes

I had read Plato and Kant, but I had forgotten it.

I bought some books in order to learn the first principles of philosophy.

If somebody is going to try to paste a person's view on epistemology to me, then give me Thomas Aquinas. Don't give me Ayn Rand.

It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.

I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read 'wildly,' and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas.

Philosophy changes day by day.

Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth.

Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.

Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.

About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.

Since Plato, we have been considering the nature of knowledge, the meaning of meaning and the status of the physical world.

It has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and one must be false; and so philosophers have been hopelessly divided on the question, which is the true one.

Philosophy was once considered science.

I was interested in philosophy before I knew I was. That's to say, when I was at school, I used to argue with my friends about issues that turned out to be philosophical ones of some kind.

I had some hesitations about philosophy because, if you worked out a philosophical theory, it was hard to know whether you were going to be able to prove it or whether other theories had just as good a claim on belief.

I'm taking a philosophy class and regretting it with everything in me. I'm taking one college class per semester. Philosophy is studying what you already know and dismantling it. I thought it would be right up my alley. I can't tell you how much it's not me.

It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.

I took all the philosophy courses I could.

Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

I don't think there's an interesting boundary between philosophy and science. Science is totally beholden to philosophy. There are philosophical assumptions in science and there's no way to get around that.

You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.

When it comes to the real operational issues that govern our understanding of physical reality, ontological definitions of classical philosophers are, in my opinion, sterile.

To me, what philosophy does best is reflect on knowledge that's generated in other areas.

Philosophy begins in wonder.