Philosophy Quotes

"Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy."

- Albert Einstein

"Rock and roll is not just music, it is a way of life, it has its own spirit."

- Anupam Roy

"Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself."

- Larry Williams

"True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit."

- Alexander Pope

"Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them."

- John Shirley

"Although I understand that all days are equal with 24 hours each, most of us agree that Friday is the longest day of the week and Sunday the shortest."

- D.S. Mixel

"Farewell has a sweet sound of reluctance. Goodbye is short and final, a word with teeth sharp to bite through the string that ties past to the future."

- John Steinbeck

"Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on."

- Zeno of Citium

"The goal of life is living in agreement with Nature."

- Zeno of Citium

"There is no law except the law that there is no law."

- John Archibald Wheeler

"The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference."

- Richard Dawkins

"Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe."

- Erwin Schrodinger

"The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them."

- Sir William Lawrence Bragg

"The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist knows it is."

- J. Robert Oppenheimer

"It’s perplexing to see the flexibility of the so-called ‘exact sciences’ which by cast-iron laws of logic and by the infallible help of mathematics can lead to conclusions which are diametrically opposed to one another."

- Vasco Ronchi

"The opposite of a right statement is a wrong statement. The opposite of a deep truth can also be a deep truth."

- Niels Bohr

"All science is either physics or stamp collecting."

- Ernest Rutherford

"One doesn't journey in order to arrive but in order to journey."

- Johann Wolfgang Goethe

"To believe an utter nonsense is the prerogative of humans."

- Konrad Lorenz

"Science is what we know and philosophy what we don't."

- Bertrand Russell

"Free will is to mind what chance is to matter."

- Charles Darwin

"The main fallacy ... is that the reductionist hypothesis does not by any means imply a "constructionist" one: The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe. In fact, the more the elementary particle physicists tell us about the nature of the fundamental laws, the less relevance they seem to have to the very real problems of the rest of science, much less to those of society."

- Philip Anderson

"The first question which we have a right to ask will be, ‘Why is there something rather than nothing?’"

- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

"[The soul] of a Shakespeare or a Newton is stupendous. Such men live the best parts of their lives after they shuffle off the mortal coil and fall into the grave. Maxwell was one of those men. His soul will live and grow for long to come, and thousands of years hence, it will shine as one of the bright stars of the past, whose light takes ages to reach us, amongst the crowd of others, not the least bright."

- Oliver Heaviside

"We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."

- Richard Dawkins

"Secrecy hides failure and exaggerates success."

- Freeman Dyson

"Life [is] a fugitive from the second law of thermodynamics."

- John Avery

"Style is the physiognomy of the mind."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"The best lack convictions, while the worst are full of passionate intensity."

- William Butler Yeats

"History is a primary way of creating meaning."

- Laurel Ulrich