“Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.”
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“Philosophy is empty if it isn't based on science. Science discovers, philosophy interprets.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Source: Attributed in posthumous publications, Einstein and the Poet (1983), p. 98
William A. Dembski (1960) American intelligent design advocate
with A., Kushiner, James M., (editors),[2001, Signs of intelligence: understanding intelligent design, Brazos Press, Grand Rapids, Mich., 1587430045, [BL263.S54, 2001], 00067612]
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Jacques Barzun (1907–2012) Historian
Classic, Romantic, Modern (1961), ch. I: "Romanticism — Dead or Alive?"
“Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.”
Martin Heidegger book Contributions to Philosophy
Contributions to Philosophy (From Enowning) [Beitrage Zur Philosophie (Vom Ereignis)], notes of 1936–1938, as translated by Parvis Emad and Kenneth Maly (1989)
Context: Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy. Those who idolize "facts" never notice that their idols only shine in a borrowed light.
Context: Those in the crossing must in the end know what is mistaken by all urging for intelligibility: that every thinking of being, all philosophy, can never be confirmed by "facts," ie, by beings. Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy. Those who idolize "facts" never notice that their idols only shine in a borrowed light. They are also meant not to notice this; for thereupon they would have to be at a loss and therefore useless. But idolizers and idols are used wherever gods are in flight and so announce their nearness.
“Philosophy is not a system of propositions, and not a science.”
Moritz Schlick book Théorie générale de la connaissance
Source: Allgemeine Erkenntnislehre, 1925, p. 157 ; As cited in: Thomas Uebel (2012). Empiricism at the Crossroads: The Vienna Circle's Protocol-Sentence. p. 78
“Philosophy is the science of estimating values.”
Manly P. Hall (1901–1990) Canadian writer and mystic
Introduction, p. 4
The Secret Teachings of All Ages (1928)
Context: Philosophy is the science of estimating values. The superiority of any state or substance over another is determined by philosophy. By assigning a position of primary importance to what remains when all that is secondary has been removed, philosophy thus becomes the true index of priority or emphasis in the realm of speculative thought.
Russell L. Ackoff (1919–2009) Scientist
Ackoff cited in: Carole Novak (2000) " Interview with Russell L. Ackoff http://www.ait.net/technos/tq_09/3ackoff.php". in: Technos Quartely. Fall 2000 Vol. 9 No. 3. This quote is the answer to the question, why Ackoff switched from architecture to philosophy in his graduate studies. <br class="br">2000s
““Pragmatism” is only a new term to designate “Opportunism” in philosophy.”
Albert Schinz (1870–1943) American writer
Anti-Pragmatism; an Examination into the Respective Rights of Intellectual Aristocracy and Social Democracy (1909), p. xv.
