Here’s a selection of scathing quotes made by scientists about philosophy and philosophers.
![Lewis Wolpert](https://www.famousscientists.org/fs/wp-content/plugins/lazy-load/images/1x1.trans.gif)
![William Gilbert](https://www.famousscientists.org/fs/wp-content/plugins/lazy-load/images/1x1.trans.gif)
![Steven Weinberg](https://www.famousscientists.org/fs/wp-content/plugins/lazy-load/images/1x1.trans.gif)
![Paul Dirac](https://www.famousscientists.org/fs/wp-content/plugins/lazy-load/images/1x1.trans.gif)
![Max Born](https://www.famousscientists.org/fs/wp-content/plugins/lazy-load/images/1x1.trans.gif)
![Steven Weinberg](https://www.famousscientists.org/fs/wp-content/plugins/lazy-load/images/1x1.trans.gif)
![John Walker](https://www.famousscientists.org/fs/wp-content/plugins/lazy-load/images/1x1.trans.gif)
![Justus von Liebig](https://www.famousscientists.org/fs/wp-content/plugins/lazy-load/images/1x1.trans.gif)
![Stephen Hawking](https://www.famousscientists.org/fs/wp-content/plugins/lazy-load/images/1x1.trans.gif)
![Galileo Galilei](https://www.famousscientists.org/fs/wp-content/plugins/lazy-load/images/1x1.trans.gif)
![Lawrence Krauss](https://www.famousscientists.org/fs/wp-content/plugins/lazy-load/images/1x1.trans.gif)
![René Descartes](https://www.famousscientists.org/fs/wp-content/plugins/lazy-load/images/1x1.trans.gif)
![Lewis Wolpert](https://www.famousscientists.org/fs/wp-content/plugins/lazy-load/images/1x1.trans.gif)
![William Gilbert](https://www.famousscientists.org/fs/wp-content/plugins/lazy-load/images/1x1.trans.gif)
To be fair, not all scientists are as dismissive of philosophy and philosophers as those quoted above. Here are more positive thoughts:
![Albert Einstein](https://www.famousscientists.org/fs/wp-content/plugins/lazy-load/images/1x1.trans.gif)
![Gilbert N. Lewis](https://www.famousscientists.org/fs/wp-content/plugins/lazy-load/images/1x1.trans.gif)
Also, there are instances when philosophical ideas have influenced scientists. Hans Christian Oersted began a new epoch in science when he discovered that electricity and magnetism are linked. Oersted was influenced by the philosopher Friedrich Schelling who believed all of nature was unified.
![Friedrich Schelling](https://www.famousscientists.org/fs/wp-content/plugins/lazy-load/images/1x1.trans.gif)
![Johan Georg Forchhammer](https://www.famousscientists.org/fs/wp-content/plugins/lazy-load/images/1x1.trans.gif)
And finally, a philospher bashes another philospher:
![Bertrand Russell](https://www.famousscientists.org/fs/wp-content/plugins/lazy-load/images/1x1.trans.gif)
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Your quotes from Einstein and Gilbert Lewis are praising, not bashing philosophers.
True. I guess you didn’t see that in front of the Einstein and Lewis quotes quotes I wrote: “To be fair, not all scientists are as dismissive of philosophy and philosophers as those quoted above. Here are more positive thoughts:”
You have forgotten to add scientists who were against philosophy, like:
– Marx,
– Vogt,
– Freud,
– Tyson,
– directly Feynman,
– Nye,
– Atkins
and many others…
And also many others who were, on the other hand, strongly pro-philosophical ones.