Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes About Physics

• The totality of our so-called knowledge or beliefs, from the most casual matters of geography and history to the profoundest laws of atomic physics or even of pure mathematics and logic, is a man-made fabric which impinges on experience only along the edges. Or, to change the figure, total science is like a field of force whose boundary conditions are experience.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Men, Geography And History, Fabric

  "Quintessence: Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W.V. Quine".

• La física investiga la naturaleza esencial del mundo, y la biología describe un bache local. La psicología, la psicología humana, describe un bache en el bache.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Nature, Science, Psychology

  W. V. Quine, Willard Van Orman Quine (1981). “Theories and Things”, p.93, Harvard University Press

• 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.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Acceptance, Thinking, Ontology

  Willard Van Orman Quine, Roger F. Gibson (2004). “Quintessence: Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W.V. Quine”, p.190, Harvard University Press

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