While science has nothing of value to say on the great and aching questions of life, death, love, and meaning, what the religious traditions of manki….

Although every novel is derived directly from another novel, there is really only one novel, the Quixote..

For all the great dreams profitlessly invested in the digital computer, it is nonetheless true that not since the framers of the American Constitutio….

In the end, every scheme and every science is justified by itself or it is not justified at all..

Arithmetic is where the content lies, and not logic; but logic prompts certainty, and not arithmetic..

There are gaps in the fossil graveyard, places where there should be intermediate forms, but where there is nothing whatsoever instead. No paleontolo….

An axiomatic system establishes a reverberating relationship between what a mathematician assumes (the axioms) and what he or she can derive (the the….

Every computer divides itself into its hardware and its software, the machine host to its algorithm, the human being to his mind. It is hardly surpri….

More than sixty years ago, mathematical logicians, by defining precisely the concept of an algorithm, gave content to the ancient human idea of an ef….

Darwinism is not a sufficient condition for a phenomenon like Nazism but I think it's certainly a necessary one..

The desire to see and the desire to ratify what one has seen are desires at odds with one another, if only because they proceed from separate places ….

Bystanders wandered in and out of the merchant's stall, passing the time, talking of dreams they might purchase. Workers and slaves stooped from lab….

Ultimately, Leibniz argued, there are only two absolutely simple concepts, God and Nothingness. From these, all other concepts may be constructed, th….

Some philosophers see into themselves, and some into their times; still others forge an alliance with the future..

"Young men wish always to dream of what they have lost." "And old men?" "Of what they have not found.".

The definition of a limit is essentially his [Cauchy's] creation and is as much of a miracle as those fantastic Swiss clocks of the period in which h….

Darwin's theory of evolution is the last of the great nineteenth-century mystery religions. And as we speak it is now following Freudians and Marxism….

No man is obliged to be what he might have been..

I do not know whether any of this is true. I am certain that the scientific community does not know that it is false..

No distinction in kind rather than degree between ourselves and the chimps? No distinction? Seriously, folks? Here is a simple operational test: the ….

If moral statements are about something, then the universe is not quite as science suggests it is, since physical theories, having said nothing about….