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"My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose."—J.B.S. Haldane
"Whereas a typical philosophical approach initiates the investigation of knowledge processes by holding all achieved knowledge in abeyance until the very possibility of any knowledge can first be established, the present approach would assume in general all scientific and commonly accepted knowledge, would assume the achievements of modern physics and biology in particular, and would make use of this cumulative achievement in understanding the knowledge process itself."—Donald T. Campbell
"...my position is a naturalistic one; I see philosophy not as an a priori propaedeutic or groundwork for science, but as continuous with science. I see philosophy and science as in the same boat—a boat which, to revert to Neurath's figure as I so often do, we can rebuild only at sea while afloat in it. There is no external vantage point, no first philosophy."—W.V. Quine
"An authentic philosophy consists exclusively of attitudes based on observations of things and events existing and occurring in various specific milieu. This restriction is in actuality a glorious potentiality affording access to everything on land, sea, and the vast reaches of astronomical space."—J.R. Kantor
"Nature has had a habit, in the past, of first tempting us to a euphoric complacency by the power and elegance of the mathematical structures that she attempts to force us to accept as guiding her world, but then jolting us, from time to time, out of our conceptual torpor by showing us that our picture could not have been correct after all! Yet the shift has always been a subtle one which leaves the previous edifice still standing proud, despite the fact that the foundations on which it has stood have now been completely replaced."—Roger Penrose
"There is a self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge."—Alfred North Whitehead
"At the last dim horizon, we search among ghostly errors of observation for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial. The search will continue. The urge is older than history. It is not satisfied and it will not be oppressed." —Edwin Hubble
"... science does not lead to knowledge of an absolute truth. For the knowledge supplied by science is (like all other knowledge) basically an expression of the structure that has been revealed in our process of coming from moment to moment into contact with a world the totality of which is beyond our ability to grasp in terms of any given sets of precepts, ideas, concepts, notions, etc. Nevertheless, we can obtain a fairly good grasp of some domain, either large or small, beyond what is based on this contact. By remaining alert to contradictions and sensitive to new relationships, thus permitting the growth of a fresh understanding, we can keep up with our contact with the world, and in some ways we can anticipate what is coming later."—David Bohm
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