Sometimes you don’t just want to risk making mistakes; you actually want to make them - if only to give you something clear and detailed to fix.

The only answer to the endless chains of why, why, why is that the alternatives died

There is no such thing as philosophy-free science, just science that has been conducted without any consideration of its underlying philosophical assumptions.

I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.

Some philosophers can't bear to say simple things, like "Suppose a dog bites a man." They feel obliged instead to say, "Suppose a dog d bites a man m at time t," thereby demonstrating their unshakable commitment to logical rigor, even though they don't go on to manipulate any formulae involving d, m, and t.

Churches have given us great treasures such as music and architecture. Whether that pays for the harm they have done is another matter.

The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.