Philosophy is altogether less pure now. It's been impurified by science and social science and history. -Bernard Williams Science
The people I really do dislike are the morally unimaginative kind of evolutionary reductionists who, in the name of science, think they can explain everything in terms of our early hominid ancestors or our genes, with their combination of high-handed tone and disregard for history. Such reductive speculation encourages a really empty scientism. -Bernard Williams Science
We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory. -Bernard Williams Brainy
Disagreement does not necessarily have to be overcome. It may remain an important and constitutive feature of our relations to others and also be seen as something that is merely to be expected in the light of the best explanations we have of how such disagreement arises. -Bernard Williams Best
