It was Rudolf Carnap's dream for the last three decades of his life to show that science proceeds by a formal syntactic method; today no one to my kn…

- Hilary Putnam

Science is wonderful at destroying metaphysical answers, but incapable of providing substitute ones. Science takes away foundations without providing…

- Hilary Putnam

Cut the pie any way you like, "meanings" just ain't in the head!

- Hilary Putnam

While there is such a thing as correctness in ethics, in interpretation, in mathematics, the way to understand that is not by trying to model it on t…

- Hilary Putnam

No sane person should believe that something is subjective merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy.

- Hilary Putnam

I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - you write backward Es!

- Hilary Putnam

The physicist who states a law of nature with the aid of a mathematical formula is abstracting a real feature of a real material world, even if he ha…

- Hilary Putnam

... causes (pains) are not logical constructions out of their effects (behaviour).

- Hilary Putnam

I can only please one person per day. Today isn't your day, tomorrow doesn't look good either.

- Hilary Putnam