29 Quotes by Mario Bunge

Of course much remains to know, but we know how to learn: through scientific research.

All the electronic devices are weakening the social bonds. Sociologists and psychologists should study this serious threat instead of repeating that communication is the cement of society.

Original philosophy is always “deviant” or even subversive.

All philosophers can do is to abstain from helping the aggressors and to enjoin social scientists to tell the truth instead of joining the choir of liars and hypocrites.

It is scandalous the way some scientists accept uncritically some of the most ridiculous speculations, such as the plurality of worlds, the opinion that spacetime has more than 4 dimensions, that particles can move faster than light, or that human life can be prolonged indefinitely.

It occurred to me that I had the duty to give society something in exchange for the free education I was getting.

I believe that modern science supports free will, in showing that the brain can act spontaneously, not only in response to external stimuli.

A democratic state will protect the freedom to hold any beliefs other than those that harm others, such as racism. In particular, it will see to it that no one is harmed just because of her beliefs.

Of course you cannot free yourself from the laws of nature; but the laws of nervous systems are not the same as the physical laws.