List Of Ontology Quotes

A First Fact Should Surprise Us, Or Rather Would Surprise Us If We Were Not Used To It. How Does It Happen There Are People Who Do Not Understand Mathematics? If Mathematics Invokes Only The Rules Of Logic, Such As Are Accepted By All Normal Minds...how Does It Come About That So Many Persons Are Here Refractory?

There Are No Solved Problems; There Are Only Problems That Are More Or Less Solved.

The World Is Too Big And Too Intricate To Conform To Our Ideas Of What It Should Be Like... Just Because We Invent Myths And Theories To Explain Away The Chaos We're Still Going To Live In A World That's Older And More Complicated Than We'll Ever Understand.

Mathematics Is Purely Hypothetical: It Produces Nothing But Conditional Propositions.

We Know From Astronomy That The Universe Had A Beginning, From Physics That The Future Is Both Open And Unpredictable, From Geology And Paleontology That The Whole Of Life Has Been A Process Of Change And Transformation. From Biology We Know That Our Tissues Are Not Impenetrable Reservoirs Of Vital Magic, But A Stunning Matrix Of Complex Wonders, Ultimately Explicable In Terms Of Biochemistry And Molecular Biology. With Such Knowledge We Can See, Perhaps For The First Time, Why A Creator Would Have Allowed Our Species To Be Fashioned By The Process Of Evolution.

There's Something In The Western Mind That Gets Very Nervous When You Try To Talk About The Bedrock Of Ontology.

Thought That Accepts Reality As Given Is No Thought At All.

Our Acceptance Of An Ontology Is, I Think, Similar In Principle To Our Acceptance Of A Scientific Theory, Say A System Of Physics;we Adopt, At Least Insofar As We Are Reasonable, The Simplest Conceptual Scheme Into Which The Disordered Fragments Of Raw Experience Can Be Fitted And Arranged.

It Is The Faithfulness Of God That Allows Epistemology To Model Ontology.

We Know Evolution Happened Not Because Of Transitional Fossils Such As A. Natans But Because Of The Convergence Of Evidence From Such Diverse Fields As Geology, Paleontology, Biogeography, Comparative Anatomy And Physiology, Molecular Biology, Genetics, And Many More.

It Is Well Known That The Central Problem Of The Whole Of Modern Mathematics Is The Study Of Transcendental Functions Defined By Differential Equations.

The Extreme Rarity Of Transitional Forms In The Fossil Record Persists As The Trade Secret Of Paleontology.