Metaphysics is a science.

The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all.

Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.

The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.

But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.

On a grassroots level we say that man can touch more than he can grasp.

The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.

Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.

It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.

Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.

But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.

Metaphysics is a science.

This detachmentmust not be mere amputation everything which is shaken off must be simultaneously found again at a higher level.

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

The verbal interpretation, on the other hand, i.e. the metaphysics of quantum physics, is on far less solid ground. In fact, in more than forty years physicists have not been able to provide a clear metaphysical model.

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.

Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.

He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.

Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.

I teach metaphysics and pastor a church.

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.

It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.

However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century.

Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

So Whitehead's metaphysics doesn't fit very well on to physics as we understand the process of the world.

Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.

To think Being itself explicitly requires disregarding Being to the extent that it is only grounded and interpreted in terms of beings and for beings as their ground, as in all metaphysics.

The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.

Metaphysics is a science.

Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.

Ancient metaphysics underwent many changes at the hands of medieval thinkers who brought it in line with the dominant religious and theological movements of their day.

A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.

Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!

This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects.

Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history.

The fact that it's science fiction gives you the license to do anything you want to do.

Statistics is the grammar of science.

I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting.

Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.

The problem with allowing God a role in the history of life is not that science would cease, but rather that scientists would have to acknowledge the existence of something important which is outside the boundaries of natural science.

Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.