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Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians. Mortimer Adler

Love Philosophers Scientists Theologians Theories Works Found

We came in as organizers before creating the Black Lives Matter network and project, and we are still organizers, strategists, political thinkers, and philosophers, so we actually have a lot ideas and a lot of really thought out strategies. Opal Tometi

Political Matter Thought Black Before Philosophers Project Out Network Ideas Still Came Lot Really Creating Strategies Lives Actually Thinkers

I felt the question of the afterlife was the black hole of the personal universe: something for which substantial proof of existence had been offered but which had not yet been explored in the proper way by scientists and philosophers. Raymond Moody

While confronting the problems of the present, I often find myself thinking back to the world of books as it was experienced by the Founding Fathers and the philosophers of the Enlightenment. Robert Darnton

Myself World Problems Thinking Fathers Philosophers Back Books Find Often Experienced While Confronting Founding Founding Fathers Present Enlightenment

Philosophers are people who do violence, but have no army at their disposal, and so subjugate the world by locking it into a system. Robert Musil

Army People World Philosophers System Locking Subjugate Who Disposal Violence

A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses. Robert Musil

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I think philosophers can do things akin to theoretical scientists, in that, having read about empirical data, they too can think of what hypotheses and theories might account for that data. So there's a continuity between philosophy and science in that way. Robert Nozick

The world's philosophers and theologians searched for answers to the same mysteries. Robert Vaughn

World Mysteries Philosophers Answers Same Theologians

However, it was the great 18th century social philosophers John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau who brought the concept of a social contract between citizens and governments sharply into political thinking, paving the way for popular democracy and constitutional republicanism. Simon Mainwaring

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For example, the philosophers who were interested in logic were probably rather logical for mathematicians. But the ASL got us together, so we could talk to each other and publish in the same journal. Stephen Cole Kleene

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics. Stephen Hawking

Science Physics Philosophers Developments Particularly Up Modern Kept

We were promised a society of philosophers. But the Blogosphere is looking more and more like a nation of ankle-biters. Steven Levy

Looking Nation Society Philosophers Promised More More And More Like Were

The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself. Stokely Carmichael

Man Philosophers Himself Condemn Question Whether Sartre Raise

It is, I think, particularly in periods of acknowledged crisis that scientists have turned to philosophical analysis as a device for unlocking the riddles of their field. Scientists have not generally needed or wanted to be philosophers. Thomas Kuhn

Field Think Analysis Philosophers Philosophical Unlocking Crisis Generally Device Particularly Periods Scientists Wanted Acknowledged Turned Riddles Needed

A single human brain has about a hundred million nerve cells... and a computer program that throws light on the mind/brain problem will have to incorporate the deepest insights of biologists, nerve scientists, psychologists, physiologists, linguists, social scientists, and even philosophers. Tony Hoare

Problem Light Will Single Philosophers Hundred Nerve Insights About Computer Computer Program Throws Scientists Brain Cells Human Human Brain Psychologists Social Even Deepest Million Biologists Incorporate Program

The ancient Greek philosophers were blonde and blue-eyed and, even then, talked about how their race was mixed with others and how this affected their society negatively. When there were no more natural blondes and no more blue eyes in Greece, they incidentally stopped producing great philosophers. Varg Vikernes

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Lofty questions about the mind are fascinating to ask, philosophers have been asking them for three millennia both in India where I am from and here in the West - but it is only in the brain that we can eventually hope to find the answers. Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

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Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them. Wallace Stevens

Value Philosophers More Along Perhaps Go Than Them

I studied English at Princeton in the early eighties in what I consider a period of high obscurity. Professors and students ran around discussing the work of critics and philosophers that I doubt they'd read or understood. Walter Kirn

What I really love about philosophers and psychologists is that they sound smart. Yoko Taro

Love Smart Philosophers About Sound Psychologists Really

There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be. Henry David Thoreau

Nation Philosophers Never Soon Likely Am Nor Certain Should Desirable

Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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