If we look, we'll find philosophy has much to teach us about ourselves, perhaps even more than religion.
Another great physicist, the Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg, has written that he finds philosophy "murky and inconsequential" and of no value to him as a working scientist.
In Europe and many other countries, it is much more common to find philosophy in the high school curriculum.
"My favourite subject is philosophy because it's the language of thinking," says Kouadio. "You find philosophy in everything," he says, adding that's why he loves Liverpool; because of the philosophy of the club.
The answer, I think, is to be found in philosophy's self-image.
Andy Martin tells this microcosmic story of postwar French thought with a lightness of touch not always found in philosophy primers.
He did not intend a career in the art world until he found his philosophy studies at the Sorbonne did not make him employable in the late 1970's.
In a New York Times Book Review, the critic Marguerite Wilkinson wrote that Teasdale had "found a philosophy of life and death".
Ms. Torgeson said the director overcame the disadvantage of being a novice partly through sheer persistence and partly because top Doctors Without Borders officials found his philosophy background intriguing.
