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Paul Carus
(18 Jul 2 - 11 Feb 1919)
German-American philosopher who emigrated to the U.S. (c.1884) and published philosophical and scientific treatises. His works include Religion and Science (1893) and The Principle of Relativity (1913). He wrote on a diverse range of subjects in many other books and articles from religion, history, politics, philosophy, and social issues to logic, mathematics, anthropology and other science.
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Science Quotes by Paul Carus (2)
Science is wonderful at destroying metaphysical answers, but incapable of providing substitute ones. Science takes away foundations without providing a replacement. Whether we want to be there or not, science has put us in the position of having to live without foundations. It was shocking when Nietzsche said this, but today it is commonplace; our historical position—and no end to it is in sight—is that of having to philosophise without 'foundations'.
— Paul Carus
Quoted in Hilary Putnam (ed.), The Many Faces of Realism: The Paul Carns Lectures (1987), 29.
The truth us that other systems of geometry are possible, yet after all, these other systems are not spaces but other methods of space measurements. There is one space only, though we may conceive of many different manifolds, which are contrivances or ideal constructions invented for the purpose of determining space.
— Paul Carus
In Science (1903), 18, 106. In Robert Édouard Moritz, Memorabilia Mathematica (1914), 352.
See also: | Construction (5) | Determine (6) | Different (5) | Geometry (38) | Ideal (8) | Invention (84) | Measurement (62) | Possibility (11) | Purpose (15) | Space (23) | System (15) | Truth (241)
