87 Quotes About Ontology
- Author Charles Sanders Peirce
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Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions.
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- Author John Polkinghorne
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It is the faithfulness of God that allows epistemology to model ontology.
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- Author Leonardo da Vinci
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No human investigation can claim to be scientific if it doesn't pass the test of mathematical proof.
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- Author Voltaire
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We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely greater, the one than the other. This astonishes our dimension of brains, which is only about six inches long, five broad, and six in depth, in the largest heads.
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- Author Alfred North Whitehead
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To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.
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- Author Eugene Wigner
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The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and there is no rational explanation of it.
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