“BERTRAND RUSSELL, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism We've associated that word philosophy with academic study that in its own way has gotten so far beyond the layman that if you read contemporary philosophy you've no clue, because it's almost become math. And it's odd that if you don't do that and you call yourself a philosopher that you always get 'homespun' attached to it.” IfsWayPhilosophyStudyPhilosopherMathContemporaryOddLogicalAcademicClueLayman Author:Bertrand Russell
“I thought I wanted to be a physicist in high school until I learned that there was much more math than philosophy in it. I assumed I would just sit around all day and think.” ThinkingPhilosophyWantedSchoolHigh SchoolMathPhysicist Author:Bo Burnham
“It was while I was studying philosophy that I came to understand. . . that it is no sign of moral or spiritual strength to believe that for which one has no evidence, neither a priori evidence as in math, nor a posteriori evidence as in science. . . . It's a violation almost immoral in its transgressiveness to shirk the responsibilities of rationality.” BelievePhilosophySpiritualResponsibilityMoralStudyEvidenceMathRationalityImmoralViolationShirkSpiritual StrengthStudying Philosophy Author:Rebecca Goldstein
“I enjoyed mathematics from a very young age. At the beginning of college, I had this illusion, which was kind of silly in retrospect, that if I just understood math and physics and philosophy, I could figure out everything else from first principles.” IfsFirstsKindPhilosophyAgeYoungPrinciplesFiguresCollegeIllusionUnderstoodMathematicsMathPhysicsSillyEnjoyedYoung AgeRetrospect Author:Erez Lieberman Aiden
“When I got to college, I planned to be a math major, and, in addition to signing up for some math courses, I decided to take some philosophy. Quite by chance, I took a philosophy of science course in which the entire semester was devoted to reading Locke's Essay. I was hooked. For the next few semesters, I took nothing but philosophy and math courses, and it wasn't long before I realised that it was the philosophy that really moved me.” LongPhilosophyCoursesReadingNextChanceCollegeMajorsDecidedMovedMathDevotedEssaysRealisedHookedSigningPhilosophy Of ScienceSemesterSigning Up Author:Hilary Kornblith
“Life is a school of probability.” LifeArtPhilosophySchoolLife IsHistoryMathematicsMathMathematicalProbabilitySchool Life Author:Walter Bagehot