Immanuel Kant Quotes About Science
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The universal and lasting establishment of peace constitutes not merely a part, but the whole final purpose and end of the science of right as viewed within the limits of reason.
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Nature, when left to universal laws, tends to produce regularity out of chaos.
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Our knowledge springs from two fundamental sources of the mind; the first is the capacity of receiving representations (receptivity for impressions), the second is the power of knowing an object through these representations (spontaneity [in the production] of concepts).
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God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into a perfect world system.
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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind... The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their union can knowledge arise.
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All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.
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Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within.
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We come no nearer the infinitude of the creative power of God, if we enclose the space of its revelation within a sphere described with the radius of the Milky Way, than if we were to limit it to a ball an inch in diameter. All that is finite, whatever has limits and a definite relation to unity, is equally far removed from the infinite... Eternity is not sufficient to embrace the manifestations of the Supreme Being, if it is not combined with the infinitude of space.
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Our intellect does not draw its laws from nature, but it imposes its laws upon nature.
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Deaths, births, and marriages, considering how much they are separately dependent on the freedom of the human will, should seem to be subject to no law according to which any calculation could be made beforehand of their amount; and yet the yearly registers of these events in great countries prove that they go on with as much conformity to the laws of nature as the oscillations of the weather.
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The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience
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Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a pupil, who listens to all that his master chooses to tell him, but in that of a judge, who compels the witnesses to reply to those questions which he himself thinks fit to propose. To this single idea must the revolution be ascribed, by which, after groping in the dark for so many centuries, natural science was at length conducted into the path of certain progress.
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It is presumed that there exists a great unity in nature, in respect of the adequacy of a single cause to account for many different kinds of consequences.
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The infinitude of creation is great enough to make a world, or a Milky Way of worlds, look in comparison with it what a flower or an insect does in comparison with the Earth.
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Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
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An organized product of nature is that in which all the parts are mutually ends and means.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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Nature even in chaos cannot proceed otherwise than regularly and according to order.
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In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.
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If it were possible for us to have so deep an insight into a man's character as shown both in inner and in outer actions, that every, even the least, incentive to these actions and all external occasions which affect them were so known to us that his future conduct could be predicted with as great a certainty as the occurrence of a solar or lunar eclipse, we could nevertheless still assert that the man is free.
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Philosophy stands in need of a science which shall determine the possibility, principles, and extent of human knowledge à priori.
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Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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