“Why are there organized beings? Why is there something rather than nothing? Here again, I fully understand a scientist who refuses to ask it. He is welcome to tell me that the question does not make sense. Scientifically speaking, it does not. Metaphysically speaking, however, it does. Science can account for many things in the world; it may some day account for all that which the world of phenomena actually is. But why anything at all is, or exists, science knows not, precisely because it cannot even ask the question.” KnowsWorldMayDoeScienceAsksSpeakUnderstandingExistenceScientistAccountsRefuseWelcomeMake SenseOrganizedQuestioningMetaphysical Author:Etienne Gilson
“If our previous analyses are correct, they all point to the same conclusion, that metaphysical adventures are doomed to fail when their authors substitute the fundamental concepts of any particular science for those of metaphysics.” IfsFailingParticularAdventureConceptsFundamentalsConclusionAnalysisSubstitutesDoomedMetaphysicsMetaphysical Author:Etienne Gilson
