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Top 25 Mario Bunge Quotes (2025 Update)

Mario Bunge Quote: “Science is morally neutral, but social science shows us that some moral codes are better than others.”

1. “Science is morally neutral, but social science shows us that some moral codes are better than others.”

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Mario Bunge Quote: “In any event, I don’t believe in instant philosophy, because interesting problems take a long time to understand and work out. Just think of the problems of truth and justice.”

2. “In any event, I don’t believe in instant philosophy, because interesting problems take a long time to understand and work out. Just think of the problems of truth and justice.”

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Mario Bunge Quote: “From a historical viewpoint, religion is just a kind of superstition, and from a political viewpoint it is a tool of social control.”

3. “From a historical viewpoint, religion is just a kind of superstition, and from a political viewpoint it is a tool of social control.”

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Mario Bunge Quote: “Whereas science elicits changes in order to know, technology knows in order to elicit changes.”

4. “Whereas science elicits changes in order to know, technology knows in order to elicit changes.”

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Mario Bunge Quote: “All genuine philosophy transcends national boundaries. Patriotic philosophies are just nationalist ideologies.”

5. “All genuine philosophy transcends national boundaries. Patriotic philosophies are just nationalist ideologies.”

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Mario Bunge Quote: “Communication accompanies social transactions and can instruct or stultify, mobilize or intimidate, but it is no substitute for production, collaboration and fight.”

6. “Communication accompanies social transactions and can instruct or stultify, mobilize or intimidate, but it is no substitute for production, collaboration and fight.”

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Mario Bunge Quote: “I have nothing to fear from serious social studies of science, and I hope that my philosophy will help progressive science policies while showing that the most modern views of science are ignorant and regressive, even if they are accompanied by a leftist-sounding rhetoric.”

7. “I have nothing to fear from serious social studies of science, and I hope that my philosophy will help progressive science policies while showing that the most modern views of science are ignorant and regressive, even if they are accompanied by a leftist-sounding rhetoric.”

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Mario Bunge Quote: “To me, work is not a burden but my main hobby. This is why I always take work with me when I go on holidays. Moreover, that’s when new projects occur to me: while contemplating beautiful landscapes or seascapes.”

8. “To me, work is not a burden but my main hobby. This is why I always take work with me when I go on holidays. Moreover, that’s when new projects occur to me: while contemplating beautiful landscapes or seascapes.”

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Mario Bunge Quote: “All the electronic devices are weakening the social bonds. Sociologists and psychologists should study this serious threat instead of repeating that communication is the cement of society.”

9. “All the electronic devices are weakening the social bonds. Sociologists and psychologists should study this serious threat instead of repeating that communication is the cement of society.”

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Mario Bunge Quote: “Only the stupid and the wicked can fear rational criticism.”

10. “Only the stupid and the wicked can fear rational criticism.”

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Mario Bunge Quote: “The fact is that all the important political philosophers and scientists from the great Aristotle on, with the exception of those of the French Enlightenment and Mill, have sided with the powers that be.”

11. “The fact is that all the important political philosophers and scientists from the great Aristotle on, with the exception of those of the French Enlightenment and Mill, have sided with the powers that be.”

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Mario Bunge Quote: “Philosophy can help laymen spot and reject the numerous pseudoscientific beliefs that survive in the media, such as the fantasies of psychoanalysts, evolutionary psychologists, and economic equilibrium theorists.”

12. “Philosophy can help laymen spot and reject the numerous pseudoscientific beliefs that survive in the media, such as the fantasies of psychoanalysts, evolutionary psychologists, and economic equilibrium theorists.”

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Mario Bunge Quote: “The motto of science is not just Pauca but rather Plurima ex paucissimis – the most out of the least.”

13. “The motto of science is not just Pauca but rather Plurima ex paucissimis – the most out of the least.”

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Mario Bunge Quote: “A distinguished cognitive neuroscientist confessed to me that, because of his religious upbringing, he could not get rid of psychoneural dualism. The idea that one ceases to be after death was too painful to him.”

14. “A distinguished cognitive neuroscientist confessed to me that, because of his religious upbringing, he could not get rid of psychoneural dualism. The idea that one ceases to be after death was too painful to him.”

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Mario Bunge Quote: “Some of the big philosophical problems have been solved by science, at least to a 1st approximation. Examples: the problems of matter, and mind. Only philosophical reactionaries, like Noam Chomsky, claim that they are and will remain mysteries.”

15. “Some of the big philosophical problems have been solved by science, at least to a 1st approximation. Examples: the problems of matter, and mind. Only philosophical reactionaries, like Noam Chomsky, claim that they are and will remain mysteries.”

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Mario Bunge Quote: “I believe that modern science supports free will, in showing that the brain can act spontaneously, not only in response to external stimuli.”

16. “I believe that modern science supports free will, in showing that the brain can act spontaneously, not only in response to external stimuli.”

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Mario Bunge Quote: “Of course much remains to know, but we know how to learn: through scientific research.”

17. “Of course much remains to know, but we know how to learn: through scientific research.”

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Mario Bunge Quote: “All philosophers can do is to abstain from helping the aggressors and to enjoin social scientists to tell the truth instead of joining the choir of liars and hypocrites.”

18. “All philosophers can do is to abstain from helping the aggressors and to enjoin social scientists to tell the truth instead of joining the choir of liars and hypocrites.”

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Mario Bunge Quote: “It is scandalous the way some scientists accept uncritically some of the most ridiculous speculations, such as the plurality of worlds, the opinion that spacetime has more than 4 dimensions, that particles can move faster than light, or that human life can be prolonged indefinitely.”

19. “It is scandalous the way some scientists accept uncritically some of the most ridiculous speculations, such as the plurality of worlds, the opinion that spacetime has more than 4 dimensions, that particles can move faster than light, or that human life can be prolonged indefinitely.”

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Mario Bunge Quote: “Original philosophy is always “deviant” or even subversive.”

20. “Original philosophy is always “deviant” or even subversive.”

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Mario Bunge Quote: “It occurred to me that I had the duty to give society something in exchange for the free education I was getting.”

21. “It occurred to me that I had the duty to give society something in exchange for the free education I was getting.”

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Mario Bunge Quote: “A democratic state will protect the freedom to hold any beliefs other than those that harm others, such as racism. In particular, it will see to it that no one is harmed just because of her beliefs.”

22. “A democratic state will protect the freedom to hold any beliefs other than those that harm others, such as racism. In particular, it will see to it that no one is harmed just because of her beliefs.”

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Mario Bunge Quote: “Of course you cannot free yourself from the laws of nature; but the laws of nervous systems are not the same as the physical laws.”

23. “Of course you cannot free yourself from the laws of nature; but the laws of nervous systems are not the same as the physical laws.”

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Mario Bunge Quote: “Most contemporary philosophers are conservative and eager to keep their jobs.”

24. “Most contemporary philosophers are conservative and eager to keep their jobs.”

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Mario Bunge Quote: “In the scientific community you find competent teachers and original researchers, just as in the musical community you find many good performers but very few good composers.”

25. “In the scientific community you find competent teachers and original researchers, just as in the musical community you find many good performers but very few good composers.”

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Mario Bunge Quote: “Exactness is not just fastidiousness but a component of clear thinking, a condition for theorizing, and a deterrent to barren controversy.”

26. “Exactness is not just fastidiousness but a component of clear thinking, a condition for theorizing, and a deterrent to barren controversy.”

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Mario Bunge Quote: “Art must pass the test of time; science must fail it, for the world it tries to understand keeps changing.”

27. “Art must pass the test of time; science must fail it, for the world it tries to understand keeps changing.”

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Mario Bunge Quote: “At all times pseudoprofound aphorisms have been more popular than rigorous arguments.”

28. “At all times pseudoprofound aphorisms have been more popular than rigorous arguments.”

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