“Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing. It embodies, indeed, something better thanthe metaphysics of the Stone Age, namely, as was said, the inherited experience and acumen of many generations of men.” IfsMenSaidAgeLastsLanguageGenerationsOrdinaryStonesClaimsPhilosophicalMetaphysicsLast WordsSomething BetterStone AgeAcumen Author:J. L. Austin
“In every age and every generation, men have envisioned a promised land. Some may have envisioned it with the wrong ideology, with the wrong philosophical presupposition. But men in every generation thought in terms of some promised land.” MenMayAgeTermGenerationsLandPhilosophicalIdeologyPromised Land Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“I fully agree with you about the significance and educational value of as well as history and philosophy of science. So many people today - and even professional - seem to me like someone who has seen thousands of trees but has never seen a forest. A knowledge of the historic and philosophical background gives that kind of independence from prejudices of his generation from which most scientists are suffering. This independence created by philosophical insight is - in my opinion - the mark of distinction between a mere artisan or specialist and a real seeker after truth.” PeopleGivingWellsKindRealPhilosophySeemsTodaySufferingValuesOpinionGenerationsTreeScientistPrejudiceMarkPhilosophicalAgreeIndependenceMereEducationalInsightBackgroundsForestsDistinctionSignificanceHistoricSeekersSpecialistsPhilosophy Of ScienceArtisans Author:Albert Einstein
“I didn't have a philosophical understanding of music until I came to New York. I didn't understand how it applied to my kind and my generation. I thought it was just old people talking.” PeopleKindUnderstandingTalkingGenerationsNew YorkPhilosophicalOld PeopleMy GenerationPeople Talking Author:Wynton Marsalis
“An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.” LifeGenerationsFoolFuturePhilosophicalBoringFuture GenerationGeneration Gap Author:Baron de Montesquieu
“"Historians of every generation, I believe, unless they are pure antiquarians, see history against the background - the controlling background - of current events. They call upon it to explain the problems of their own time, to give to those problems a philosophical context, a continuum in which they may be reduced to proportion and perhaps made intelligible."” GivingBelieveMayMadeProblemI BelieveHistoryGenerationsEventsPurePhilosophicalCurrentsBackgroundsProportionHistorianContinuumCurrent Events Author:Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper
“When it comes to the origin of life there are only two possibilities: creation or spontaneous generation. There is no third way. Spontaneous generation was disproved one hundred years ago, but that leads us to only one other conclusion, that of supernatural creation. We cannot accept that on philosophical grounds; therefore, we choose to believe the impossible: that life arose spontaneously by chance!” WayYearsBelieveTwoChanceAcceptingImpossibleGenerationsCreationPossibilityHundredYears AgoThirdsPhilosophicalConclusionSpontaneousOrigin Of Life Author:George Wald