Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.
That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.
It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
The verbal interpretation, on the other hand, i.e. the metaphysics of quantum physics, is on far less solid ground. In fact, in more than forty years physicists have not been able to provide a clear metaphysical model.
Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.
My views as an individual ought not to be confused with my views as a scientist - the minute you try to mingle God and science, you get into trouble. Metaphysics has its place, and science has its place; don't mix the two.
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
Metaphysics is a science.
When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.