Ontology Of Things Quotes

#1. If an ontology predicts almost nothing it ends up explaining almost nothing, and there's no reason to believe it.

Sean Carroll

#2. Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.

Slavoj Zizek

#3. This view [of the infinite], which I consider to be the sole correct one, is held by only a few. While possibly I am the very first in history to take this position so explicitly, with all of its logical consequences, I know for sure that I shall not be the last!

Georg Cantor

#4. She had not been the sort to have cared about the naming of things that existed well without it ...

Thomm Quackenbush

#5. Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.

Peter Kreeft

#6. And entertainment has nothing to do with reality. Entertainment is antithetical to reality.

Michael Crichton

#7. ALGEBRA is a general Method of Computation by certain Signs and Symbols which have been contrived for this Purpose, and found convenient.

Colin Maclaurin

#8. What the mind cannot accept, the heart can finally never adore.

John Shelby Spong

#9. All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.

Alain Badiou

#10. The type of nothing from which something can arise is truly something.

John K. Brown

#11. It is the faithfulness of God that allows epistemology to model ontology.

John Polkinghorne

#12. Do clocks tell time or does time tell clocks

Dean Cavanagh

#13. My opinion of mankind is founded upon the mournful fact that, so far as I can see, they find within themselves the means of believing in a thousand times as much as there is to believe in.

Augustus De Morgan

#14. Utopia would seem to offer the spectacle of one of those rare phenomena whose concept is indistinguishable from its reality, whose ontology coincides with its representation.

Fredric Jameson

#15. Catastrophe as Catalyst in the Ontology of Joy, or Hurricane Parties on the Gulf Coast during Hurricane Camille: An In-depth Study of Eleven Victims Who Elected to Stay Compared with Eleven Random Control Subjects Who Elected to Leave"?

Walker Percy

#16. I'm apt to get drunk on words ... Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being.

Madeleine L'Engle

#17. If [things] seem to have a relative unreality ... it is because they are potential and not actual; they are unfulfilled ... They have it in them to be more real than they are.

G.K. Chesterton

#18. The planet has survived everything, in its time. It will certainly survive us.

Michael Crichton

#19. No human investigation can claim to be scientific if it doesn't pass the test of mathematical proof.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#20. From now on, I'm opting for ontological terrorism.

Grant Morrison

#21. We are in an outside that carries inner worlds.

Peter Sloterdijk

#22. Infinity is a fathomless gulf, into which all things vanish.

Marcus Aurelius

#23. It is well known that the central problem of the whole of modern mathematics is the study of transcendental functions defined by differential equations.

Felix Klein

#24. Brilliant. The Ontology Project is a post-graduate course in card magic.

Jim Steinmeyer

#25. The world is too big and too intricate to conform to our ideas of what it should be like ... Just because we invent myths and theories to explain away the chaos we're still going to live in a world that's older and more complicated than we'll ever understand.

Moby

#26. Horror operates with complete autonomy. Generating ontological havoc, it is mephitic foam upon which our lives merely float. And ultimately, we must face up to it: Horror is more real than we are.

Thomas Ligotti

#27. We are the relationships that make us; we have our being in and through relationships that place us into reality, and therefore we are open ontologically to the possibility of encounter.

Andrew Root

#28. Although my knowledge grows more and more, nevertheless I do not for that reason believe that it can ever be actually infinite, since it can never reach a point so high that it will be unable to attain any greater increase.

Rene Descartes

#29. Much of what Karl Popper contributed to the philosophy of science has now passed into mainstream thought, into the currency of that nebulous, tricky ontology known as 'common sense.'

Liz Williams

#30. Thought that accepts reality as given is no thought at all.

Herbert Marcuse

#31. There's something in the Western mind that gets very nervous when you try to talk about the bedrock of ontology.

Terence McKenna

#32. Being and not being are not two different realities, but two different aspects of the same reality.

Raheel Farooq

#33. Calculus works by making visible the infinitesimally small.

Keith Devlin

#34. We must revisit the idea that science is a methodology and not an ontology.

Deepak Chopra