“I think a scientist's job is to explore the Universe, to explore the cosmos around us. People always want to know - why is that useful? Well, on just pure fundamental grounds, on some level it's like art, it's like umm, music, it's aesthetics, it's like philosophy. You want to know where you are in the Universe.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantWellsArtPhilosophyJobsUniverseLevelsPureScientistFundamentalsCosmosWhere You AreAesthetics Author:Brian Schmidt
“An important tradition within westren philosophy believes in the primacy of natural science as a guide to truth. This is sometimes met with the charge that such an allegiance amounts to scientism - the view that the only things that really exist are those recognized by fundamental physical theory, and that the only forms of genuine knowledge are scientific ones.” BelieveImportantSometimesPhilosophyFormNaturalViewsAtheismTheoryAmountMetsTraditionFundamentalsPositive AtheismGuidesGenuineAllegianceScientismNatural SciencePrimacy Book:Atheism and Theism Source: Atheism and Theism
“I know that in the battle of ideas, Republican politicians are at a distinct disadvantage. Their fundamental philosophy - which I characterize as survival of the fittest, richest and whitest - is too callous for most Americans.” KnowsIdeasPhilosophyPoliticianRepublicanBattleSurvivalFundamentalsDisadvantagesSurvival Of The FittestCallous Author:John Yarmuth
“The controversy as to whether socialism is possible has been settled by the fact that it exists, and it is a fundamental axiom of my philosophy, at any rate, that anything that exists, is possible.” Has BeensPhilosophyFactsFundamentalsRateSocialismControversyAxioms Author:Kenneth E. Boulding
“A philosophy can and must be worked out with the greatest rigour and discipline in the details, but can ultimately be founded on nothing but faith: and this is the reason, I suspect, why the novelties in philosophy are only in elaboration, and never in fundamentals.” ReasonPhilosophyFaithDisciplineFundamentalsDetailsSuspectsNoveltyRigour Author:T. S. Eliot
“My fundamental philosophy is that you owe it to society to transfer to them any knowledge you have that might be useful.” PhilosophyMightFundamentalsTransfers Author:Leroy Hood
“American life is builded ... upon that fundamental philosophy announced by the Savior nineteen centuries ago ... [It] can not survive with the defense of Cain, "Am I my brother's keeper?” PhilosophyLife IsCenturyBrotherFundamentalsDefenseMy BrotherSaviorCan NotKeepersAmerican LifeNineteenCain Author:Herbert Hoover
“My fundamental axiom of speculative philosophy is that materialism and spiritualism are opposite poles of the same absurdity-the absurdity of imagining that we know anything about either spirit or matter.” KnowsMatterPhilosophySpiritOppositesFundamentalsMaterialismAbsurdityAxiomsSpiritualism Author:Thomas Huxley
“My philosophy, one of the biggest enemies of future success is past success, because you become complacent, you become risk averse, and that's one of the things we try to drive here, and this is fundamental to this philosophy, and that's in this component change, and also in value creation. That we need to drive creative destruction, not just incremental innovations, but innovations that will change the whole nature of the business.” NeedsTryingPhilosophyWholePastValuesEnemyCreativeRiskCreationDestructionInnovationFundamentalsComponentsComplacentFuture SuccessPast SuccessCreative Destruction Author:Charles Koch
“There will be some fundamental assumptions which adherents of all the variant systems within the epoch unconsciously presuppose. Such assumptions appear so obvious that people do not know what they are assuming because no other way of putting things has ever occurred to them. With these assumptions a certain limited number of types of philosophic systems are possible, and this group of systems constitutes the philosophy of the epoch.” PeopleKnowsWayPhilosophyCertainNumbersGroupsTypeFundamentalsAssumingObviousAssumptionEpochPhilosophic Book:Science and the Modern World Source: Science and the Modern World
“That Hegel is a metaphysician, and that he thinks metaphysics is fundamental to philosophy, is plain enough from his definition of philosophy.” ThinkingEnoughPhilosophyFundamentalsDefinitionsMetaphysicsHegel Author:Frederick C. Beiser
“A certain kind of methodologically-minded philosopher of science is quick to read off metaphysical conclusions from features of scientific practice. Chemists don't derive their laws from fundamental physics, so reductive physicalism must be false. Biologists refer to natural numbers in some of their explanations, so numbers must exist. I think that this kind of thing makes for bad philosophy.” ThinkingKindPhilosophyLawCertainNaturalNumbersPracticeFundamentalsPhilosopherPhysicsConclusionFeaturesExplanationMetaphysicalBiologistChemist Author:David Papineau
“I think that [there is] this fundamental right to privacy and the philosophy that government shouldn't be intrusive.” ThinkingPhilosophyGovernmentFundamentalsPrivacyRight To Privacy Author:Tim Cook
“I think I can define my entire life, virtuosity and business philosophy down to the core fundamental that I absolutely hate being told what to do. But like any artist or any human being out there, I desperately want to be loved, and I spend my entire life trying to balance those two facts.” ThinkingWantTryingHumansI CanTwoPhilosophyFactsArtistHateHuman BeingsBalanceFundamentalsCoreVirtuosity Author:Amanda Palmer