Quotes for All
Evan Rachel Wood is a robot, yes. And some of them, there was one person in particular that was so sure, wrote like a whole thesis, and tagged the whole cast. He was like, Here’s my theory. And remember I said it first. He was so proud. And it could not have been farther from … Read more
\”Methodological naturalism\” and \”metaphysical naturalism\” are terms that often surface in the continuing battle between evolutionary biology and creationism/intelligent design. The methodological thesis says that scientific theories shouldn’t postulate supernatural entities; the metaphysical thesis says that no such entities exist. In this debate, God is the supernatural entity at issue; the question isn’t whether science … Read more
The indispensability argument seeks to assimilate the epistemology of metaphysical statements to the epistemology of statements that are obviously empirical. I think it fails to achieve this goal. The argument does not refute the Carnapian thesis that scientific theories and metaphysical claims differ epistemologically – observations can provide evidence for the former, but not for … Read more
It can be a necessary conceptual truth that pains are painful without this ruling out the physicalist thesis that immaterial minds are impossible or the thesis that conscious states supervene on physical states. The necessity involved in these claims is nomological necessity, not metaphysical necessity (assuming that these are different). Elliott Sober
A piano in the house, when I came home from school and was able to play all these different notes with all theses different sounds, I really found that fascinating. Ella Henderson
True, I don’t begin with an idea for a play – a thesis, in other words, to construct the play around. But I know a good deal about the nature of the characters. I know a great deal about their environment. And I more or less know what is going to happen in the play. … Read more
If in many of my productions terror has been the thesis, I maintain that terror is not of Germany, but of the soul. Edgar Allan Poe
Anti-theses.- The most senile thing ever thought about man is contained in the celebrated saying ‘the ego is always hateful’; the most childish is the even more celebrated ‘love thy neighbor as thyself’. – In the former, knowledge of human nature has ceased, in the latter it has not yet even begun. Friedrich Nietzsche
My main thesis will be that in the study of the intermediate processes of metabolism we have to deal not with complex substances which elude ordinary chemical methods, but with the simple substances undergoing comprehensible reactions… I intend also to emphasise the fact that it is not alone with the separation and identification of products … Read more
Royce is the father of the thesis that German idealism is a story about the discovery and development of the Kantian transcendental ego – the \”I\” that accompanies all my representations – as an absolute cosmic supersubject who, god-like, creates the entire universe. Frederick C. Beiser