Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert B. Laughlin

But the need for conflict to expose prejudice and unclear reasoning, which is deeply embedded in my philosophy of science, has its origin in these debates.

Robert Anton Wilson

I'm the kind of anarchist whose chief objection to the State is that it kills so many people. Government is the epitome of the deathist philosophy I reject.

Robert Anton Wilson

...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.

Richard M. Nixon

Television is to news as bumperstickers are to philosophy.

Richard Rorty

As long as we try to project from the relative and conditioned to the absolute and unconditioned, we shall keep the pendulum swinging between dogmatism and skepticism. The only way to stop this increasingly tiresome pendulum swing is to change our conception of what philosophy is good for. But that is not something which will be accomplished by a few neat arguments. It will be accomplished, if it ever is, by a long, slow process of cultural change - that is to say, of change in common sense, changes in the intuitions available for being pumped up by philosophical arguments.

Richard Rorty

Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.

Richard Courant

For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?

Tullian Tchividjian

When God saved me, He gave me a thirst to learn and to read and to study. I thrived in college. I got a bachelor's degree in philosophy and then went to Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando.

Tori Amos

These precious things, let them bleed.

Roger Ailes

Capitalism works. In the end, socialism imploded on itself. Communism imploded on itself. Ultimately jihadism will implode on itself, if we stay in the fight and stay on offense because failed philosophies don't work, there's no future.

Robin Williams

The only weapon we have is comedy.

Robin Williams

Crying never helped anybody do anything, okay? You have a problem you face it like a man.

Robin Williams

When you have a great audience, you can just keep going and finding new things.

Robin Williams

All you have to do is think one happy thought, and you'll fly like me.

Robin Williams

There's three things in this world that you need: Respect for all kinds of life, a nice bowel movement on a regular basis, and a navy blazer.

Robin Williams

But if there's love, dear... those are the ties that bind, and you'll have a family in your heart, forever.

Robin Williams

Good people end up in Hell because they can't forgive themselves.

Robin Williams

A human life is just a heartbeat in heaven.

Robin Williams

Please, don't worry so much. Because in the end, none of us have very long on this Earth. Life is fleeting.

Robin Williams

You treat a disease, you win, you lose. You treat a person, I guarantee you, you'll win, no matter what the outcome.

Robin Williams

I'm a very tolerant man, except when it comes to holding a grudge.

Robin Williams

For a while you get mad, then you get over it.

Robin Williams

Gentlemen, haven't we learned anything from the music of John Lennon? All we need is love.

Robin Williams

Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself.

Robert Winston

That Britain today is a liberal society is largely because of the philosophy and outlook of the Anglican Church, which did so much to shape our core values in the past few centuries.

Robert Reich

Globalization and free trade do spur economic growth, and they lead to lower prices on many goods.

Robert Neelly Bellah

That happiness is to be attained through limitless material acquisition is denied by every religion and philosophy known to mankind, but is preached incessantly by every American television set.

Robert Nozick

I think philosophers can do things akin to theoretical scientists, in that, having read about empirical data, they too can think of what hypotheses and theories might account for that data. So there's a continuity between philosophy and science in that way.

Robert Nozick

It is, from another angle, an attack on requiring proof in philosophy. And it's also the case, I guess, that my temperament is to like interesting, new, bold ideas, and to try and generate them.

Richard P. Feynman

What is the fundamental hypothesis of science, the fundamental philosophy? We stated it in the first chapter: the sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment. ... If we are told that the same experiment will always produce the same result, that is all very well, but if when we try it, it does not, then it does not. We just have to take what we see, and then formulate all the rest of our ideas in terms of our actual experience.

Richard P. Feynman

A person talks in such generalities that everyone can understand him and it's considered to be some deep philosophy . However, I would like to be very rather more special and I would like to be understood in an honest way, rather than in a vague way.

Richard P. Feynman

Some people say, "How can you live without knowing?" I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That is easy. How you get to know is what I want to know.

Richard P. Feynman

Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.