Sophie's World

by Jostein Gaarder

So philosophy gradually liberated itself from religion. We could say that the natural philosophers took the first step in the direction of scientific reasoning, thereby becoming the precursors of what was to become science.

This unshakable faith in human reason is called rationalism.

man cannot know the truth about the riddles of nature and of the universe. In philosophy a view like this is called skepticism.

A person who is unable to say categorically whether or not the gods or God exists is called an agnostic.