Science and Reason

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.

Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.

Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?

By doubting we come at truth.

Philosophy is the science which considers truth.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.

Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe – a spirit vastly superior to that of man…

Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.

The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. The religion which based on experience, which refuses dogmatic. If there's any religion that would cope the scientific needs it will be Buddhism.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

It [economics] is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique of thinking which helps its possessor to draw correct conclusions.

I’d rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.

Just as a poetic discussion of the weather is not meteorology, so an issuance of moral pronouncements or political creeds about the economy is not economics. Economics is a study of cause-and-effect relationships in an economy.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge--and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves--how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves?

Great intellects are skeptical.

Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive.

It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable; it is precisely thereby that it attracts the more subtle minds. It seems that the hundred-times-refuted theory of the "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it.

Pure logic is the impossibility by means of which science is maintained.

The misunderstanding of passion and reason, as if the latter were an independent entity and not rather a system of relations between various passions and desires; and as if every passion did not possess its quantum of reason