Preference Quotes (2)
Philosophy is to science as pornography is to sex: it is cheaper, easier and some people prefer it.
Review of Simon Pinker, How the Mind Works (1997). In New York Review of Books (6 Nov 1997).
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
A Preface to Morals (1929, 1982), 127.
See also: | Atom (85) | Belief (37) | Force (14) | Heart (21) | Novelty (4) | Radical (5) | Rejection (4) | Science And Religion (76) | Star (55)
