Today's preoccupation with physical theories of everything takes a wrong turn from the purpose of science - to question all things relentlessly. Modern physics has become like Swift's kingdom of Laputa flying absurdly on an island above the earth and indifferent to what is beneath.
Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods but a new metaphysics can rescue us.
In science there is only physics all the rest is stamp collecting.
I like science fiction and physics things like that. Planets being sucked into black holes and the various vortexes that create possibility and what happens on the other side of the black hole. To me it's the microcosmic study of the macrocosmic universe in man and that's why I'm attracted to it.
Modern science cannot explain why the laws of physics are exactly balanced for animal life to exist.
The violent reaction on the recent development of modern physics can only be understood when one realises that here the foundations of physics have started moving and that this motion has caused the feeling that the ground would be cut from science.
All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
Biology is now bigger than physics as measured by the size of budgets by the size of the workforce or by the output of major discoveries and biology is likely to remain the biggest part of science through the twenty-first century.
Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.
In science 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
The point here is that physics followed the data where it seemed to lead even though some thought the model gave aid and comfort to religion.
Go beyond science into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.
He however who begins with Metaphysics will not only become confused in matters of religion but will fall into complete infidelity.
The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large.
This book is about physics and its about physics and its relationship with mathematics and how they seem to be intimately related and to what extent can you explore this relationship and trust it.
Liberty according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
The fundamental concept in social science is Power in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.