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Top 30 David Berlinski Quotes (2025 Update)

David Berlinski Quote: “No distinction in kind rather than degree between ourselves and the chimps? No distinction? Seriously, folks? Here is a simple operational test: the chimpanzees invariably are the one behind the bars of their cages.”

1. “No distinction in kind rather than degree between ourselves and the chimps? No distinction? Seriously, folks? Here is a simple operational test: the chimpanzees invariably are the one behind the bars of their cages.”

— David Berlinski

David Berlinski Quote: “No man is obliged to be what he might have been.”

2. “No man is obliged to be what he might have been.”

— David Berlinski

David Berlinski Quote: “Bystanders wandered in and out of the merchant’s stall, passing the time, talking of dreams they might purchase. Workers and slaves stooped from labor asked timidly for dreams of wine and ease. Women asked for dreams of love, and men for dreams of women.”

3. “Bystanders wandered in and out of the merchant’s stall, passing the time, talking of dreams they might purchase. Workers and slaves stooped from labor asked timidly for dreams of wine and ease. Women asked for dreams of love, and men for dreams of women.”

— David Berlinski

David Berlinski Quote: “In the end, every scheme and every science is justified by itself or it is not justified at all.”

4. “In the end, every scheme and every science is justified by itself or it is not justified at all.”

— David Berlinski

David Berlinski Quote: “Validity is the touchstone of inference, and truth of judgment: the fact that vichyssoise is cold ratifies the judgment that vichyssoise is, indeed, cold, and the judgment that vichyssoise is cold expresses the fact that vichyssoise is cold.”

5. “Validity is the touchstone of inference, and truth of judgment: the fact that vichyssoise is cold ratifies the judgment that vichyssoise is, indeed, cold, and the judgment that vichyssoise is cold expresses the fact that vichyssoise is cold.”

— David Berlinski

David Berlinski Quote: “Did you imagine that science was a disinterested pursuit of the truth? Well, you were wrong.”

6. “Did you imagine that science was a disinterested pursuit of the truth? Well, you were wrong.”

— David Berlinski

David Berlinski Quote: “Of all the human emotions, curiosity is the one least subject to gluttony. Once engaged, it has a tendency to grow relentlessly until in the end the scholar becomes curious about the nature of revelation itself.”

7. “Of all the human emotions, curiosity is the one least subject to gluttony. Once engaged, it has a tendency to grow relentlessly until in the end the scholar becomes curious about the nature of revelation itself.”

— David Berlinski

David Berlinski Quote: “In his introduction to Charles M. Doughty’s Travels in Arabia Deserta, T. E. Lawrence attempted to describe the character of the desert Arabs that both he and Doughty had admired. “They are the least morbid of peoples,” Lawrence wrote, “who take the gift of life unquestioningly, as an axiom.”

8. “In his introduction to Charles M. Doughty’s Travels in Arabia Deserta, T. E. Lawrence attempted to describe the character of the desert Arabs that both he and Doughty had admired. “They are the least morbid of peoples,” Lawrence wrote, “who take the gift of life unquestioningly, as an axiom.”

— David Berlinski

David Berlinski Quote: “Perhaps the best argument in favor of the thesis that the Big Bang supports theism,” the astrophysicist Christopher Isham has observed, “is the obvious unease with which it is greeted by some atheist physicists.”

9. “Perhaps the best argument in favor of the thesis that the Big Bang supports theism,” the astrophysicist Christopher Isham has observed, “is the obvious unease with which it is greeted by some atheist physicists.”

— David Berlinski

David Berlinski Quote: “We are finite creatures, bound to this place and this time, and helpless before an endless expanse. It is within the calculus that for the first time the infinite is charmed into compliance, its luxuriance subordinated to the harsh concept of a limit.”

10. “We are finite creatures, bound to this place and this time, and helpless before an endless expanse. It is within the calculus that for the first time the infinite is charmed into compliance, its luxuriance subordinated to the harsh concept of a limit.”

— David Berlinski

David Berlinski Quote: “Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.” The lame and the blind excepted, who could object?”

11. “Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.” The lame and the blind excepted, who could object?”

— David Berlinski

David Berlinski Quote: “Arguments follow from assumptions, and assumptions follow from beliefs, and very rarely – perhaps never – do beliefs reflect an agenda determined entirely by the facts.”

12. “Arguments follow from assumptions, and assumptions follow from beliefs, and very rarely – perhaps never – do beliefs reflect an agenda determined entirely by the facts.”

— David Berlinski

David Berlinski Quote: “The advent of militant atheism marks a reaction – a lurid but natural reaction – to the violence of the Islamic world.”

13. “The advent of militant atheism marks a reaction – a lurid but natural reaction – to the violence of the Islamic world.”

— David Berlinski

David Berlinski Quote: “But of all the human emotions, curiosity is the one least subject to the general proscription against gluttony, and once engaged, even if engaged initially in the service of religion, it has a tendency to grow relentlessly, until in the end the scholar becomes curious about the nature of revelation itself.”

14. “But of all the human emotions, curiosity is the one least subject to the general proscription against gluttony, and once engaged, even if engaged initially in the service of religion, it has a tendency to grow relentlessly, until in the end the scholar becomes curious about the nature of revelation itself.”

— David Berlinski

David Berlinski Quote: “At the beginning of the new millennium, we still do not know why mathematics is true and whether it is certain. But we know what we do not know in an immeasurably richer way than we did. And learning this has been a remarkable achievement-among the greatest and least-known of the modern era.”

15. “At the beginning of the new millennium, we still do not know why mathematics is true and whether it is certain. But we know what we do not know in an immeasurably richer way than we did. And learning this has been a remarkable achievement-among the greatest and least-known of the modern era.”

— David Berlinski

David Berlinski Quote: “Some philosophers see into themselves, and some into their times; still others forge an alliance with the future.”

16. “Some philosophers see into themselves, and some into their times; still others forge an alliance with the future.”

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David Berlinski Quote: “If science has shown that God does not exist, it has not been by appealing to Big Bang cosmology. The hypothesis of God’s existence and the facts of contemporary cosmology are consistent.”

17. “If science has shown that God does not exist, it has not been by appealing to Big Bang cosmology. The hypothesis of God’s existence and the facts of contemporary cosmology are consistent.”

— David Berlinski

David Berlinski Quote: “The desire to see and the desire to ratify what one has seen are desires at odds with one another, if only because they proceed from separate places in the imagination.”

18. “The desire to see and the desire to ratify what one has seen are desires at odds with one another, if only because they proceed from separate places in the imagination.”

— David Berlinski

$David Berlinski Quote: “If the calculus is much like a cathedral, its construction the work of centuries, it remained until the nineteenth century a cathedral suspiciously suspended in midair, the thing simply hanging there, with no one absolutely convinced that one day the gorgeous and elaborate structure would not come crashing down and fracture in a thousand pieces.”$

19. “If the calculus is much like a cathedral, its construction the work of centuries, it remained until the nineteenth century a cathedral suspiciously suspended in midair, the thing simply hanging there, with no one absolutely convinced that one day the gorgeous and elaborate structure would not come crashing down and fracture in a thousand pieces.”

— David Berlinski

David Berlinski Quote: “My own view, repeated in virtually all of my essays, is that the sense of skepticism engendered by the sciences would be far more appropriately directed toward the sciences than toward anything else.”

20. “My own view, repeated in virtually all of my essays, is that the sense of skepticism engendered by the sciences would be far more appropriately directed toward the sciences than toward anything else.”

— David Berlinski

David Berlinski Quote: “As its campfires glow against the dark, every culture tells stories to itself about how the gods lit up the morning sky and set the wheel of being into motion. The great scientific culture of the West – our culture – is no exception. The calculus is the story this world first told itself as it became the modern world.”

21. “As its campfires glow against the dark, every culture tells stories to itself about how the gods lit up the morning sky and set the wheel of being into motion. The great scientific culture of the West – our culture – is no exception. The calculus is the story this world first told itself as it became the modern world.”

— David Berlinski

David Berlinski Quote: “Neither the Nazis nor the Communists, he affirms, acted because of their atheism. They were simply keen to kill a great many people. Atheism had nothing to do with it. They might well have been Christian Scientists.”

22. “Neither the Nazis nor the Communists, he affirms, acted because of their atheism. They were simply keen to kill a great many people. Atheism had nothing to do with it. They might well have been Christian Scientists.”

— David Berlinski

David Berlinski Quote: “No scientific theory touches on the mysteries that the religious tradition addresses. A man asking why his days are short and full of suffering is not disposed to turn to algebraic quantum field theory for the answer. The answers that prominent scientific figures have offered are remarkable in their shallowness.”

23. “No scientific theory touches on the mysteries that the religious tradition addresses. A man asking why his days are short and full of suffering is not disposed to turn to algebraic quantum field theory for the answer. The answers that prominent scientific figures have offered are remarkable in their shallowness.”

— David Berlinski

David Berlinski Quote: “Just who has imposed on the suffering human race poison gas, barbed wire, high explosives, experiments in eugenics, the formula for zyklon b, heavy artillery, pseudo-scientific justifications for mass murder, cluster bombs, attack submarines, napalm, intercontinental missiles, military space platforms and nuclear weapons? If memory serves it was not the Vatican.”

24. “Just who has imposed on the suffering human race poison gas, barbed wire, high explosives, experiments in eugenics, the formula for zyklon b, heavy artillery, pseudo-scientific justifications for mass murder, cluster bombs, attack submarines, napalm, intercontinental missiles, military space platforms and nuclear weapons? If memory serves it was not the Vatican.”

— David Berlinski

David Berlinski Quote: “Although every novel is derived directly from another novel, there is really only one novel, the Quixote.”

25. “Although every novel is derived directly from another novel, there is really only one novel, the Quixote.”

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David Berlinski Quote: “More than sixty years ago, mathematical logicians, by defining precisely the concept of an algorithm, gave content to the ancient human idea of an effective calculation. Their definitions led to the creation of the digital computer, an interesting example of thought bending matter to its ends.”

26. “More than sixty years ago, mathematical logicians, by defining precisely the concept of an algorithm, gave content to the ancient human idea of an effective calculation. Their definitions led to the creation of the digital computer, an interesting example of thought bending matter to its ends.”

— David Berlinski

David Berlinski Quote: “For all the great dreams profitlessly invested in the digital computer, it is nonetheless true that not since the framers of the American Constitution took seriously the idea that all men are created equal has an idea so transformed the material conditions of life, the expectations of the race.”

27. “For all the great dreams profitlessly invested in the digital computer, it is nonetheless true that not since the framers of the American Constitution took seriously the idea that all men are created equal has an idea so transformed the material conditions of life, the expectations of the race.”

— David Berlinski

David Berlinski Quote: “Arithmetic is where the content lies, and not logic; but logic prompts certainty, and not arithmetic.”

28. “Arithmetic is where the content lies, and not logic; but logic prompts certainty, and not arithmetic.”

— David Berlinski

David Berlinski Quote: “I do not know whether any of this is true. I am certain that the scientific community does not know that it is false.”

29. “I do not know whether any of this is true. I am certain that the scientific community does not know that it is false.”

— David Berlinski

David Berlinski Quote: “For the most part, it is true, ordinary men and women regard mathematics with energetic distaste, counting its concepts as rhapsodic as cauliflower. This is a mistake-there is no other word. Where else can the restless human mind find means to tie the infinite in a finite bow?”

30. “For the most part, it is true, ordinary men and women regard mathematics with energetic distaste, counting its concepts as rhapsodic as cauliflower. This is a mistake-there is no other word. Where else can the restless human mind find means to tie the infinite in a finite bow?”

— David Berlinski

David Berlinski Quote: “However good an argument in philosophy may happen to be, it is generally not good enough.”

31. “However good an argument in philosophy may happen to be, it is generally not good enough.”

— David Berlinski

David Berlinski Quote: “Aristotelian logic is massive and marmoreal, but every monument accumulates graffiti.”

32. “Aristotelian logic is massive and marmoreal, but every monument accumulates graffiti.”

— David Berlinski

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