Sabit Murat was born on October 17, 1938 in the village of Zhana Tan, Lebyazhinsky district, Pavlodar region. After graduating from the Kzyl-Asker secondary school in the 1955-1956 school year, he worked as a teacher of physics and German at the Stalin seven-year school. In 1956-1961 studied at the Faculty of Physics of the Kazakh State University named after S.M. Kirov
Since October 1961 to December 1996 worked at the Institute of Philosophy and Law of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR, holding the positions of junior, senior, leading and chief researcher, acting. head of the department, as well as deputy director for scientific work. From November 1994 to December 1995 served as Deputy Academician-Secretary of the Department of Social Sciences of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan. In 1970 he defended his PhD thesis on the topic “Dialectics of necessity and chance in quantum mechanics”, and in 1990 – his doctoral dissertation “Logical-epistemological analysis of the formation and development of quantum mechanics”. In 1994 he was awarded the title of professor.
Laureate of the State Prize of the Kazakh SSR in the field of science and technology in 1984.
From December 1996 to December 2001, he headed the Department of Philosophy, History and Law at the Kazakh Academy of Architecture and Civil Engineering, from December 2001 to September 2011, the Department of Philosophy and Methodology of Sciences at Abay KazNPU. From September 2011 to August 2013 – Professor at the University of Foreign Languages and Business Careers, from September 2013 – Professor at the Department of Social Sciences at Almaty University of Energy and Communications. From 2021, he has been working as a professor at the Almaty University of Humanitarian Economics.
The scientist has published more than 250 scientific works, including 2 individual and 13 collective monographs, as well as a number of textbooks and teaching aids. On his initiative and with his participation, a collection of scientific articles by Kazakh social scientists in German was published in Germany: “Forschung, Jnnovationen und desellschaftliche Probleme im Raumen der Modernisilrung Kasachstans” (Berlin: Verlag Dr. Koster, 2013. Compiled by professors, doctors of science Sabit M. and Rau I.). Under his scientific supervision, 4 doctoral dissertations, 13 candidate dissertations, and also a PhD dissertation were defended.
Sabit M.'s scientific works are devoted to the study of problems of dialectics as logic and theory of knowledge in close connection with the development of philosophical and methodological problems of modern science. He is one of the authors and a member of the editorial board of the 4-volume monograph “Dialectical Logic” (1985-1987), which has received wide recognition in scientific circles not only in Kazakhstan, but also far beyond its borders. He analyzed a complex of logical-epistemological and logical-methodological problems of the formation and development of such physical theories as quantum mechanics, special and general theories of relativity of A. Einstein. From the standpoint of dialectical-logical categories and principles, the logical structure of the above-mentioned fundamental theories, which occupy a decisive place in the structure of modern physics, is revealed. As is known, the problems of constructing a scientific theory, analyzing the relationship between the empirical and theoretical, the role of scientific ideas and principles in its composition, questions of its interpretation are of great interest and their understanding (for example, the principles of correspondence and complementarity of N. Bohr, the historical evolution of the principle of relativity from Galileo to the general theory of relativity of A. Einstein, their heuristic functions in the process of construction and further development in the spirit of the theory), dialectical-logical ideas (this is precisely the advantages of the approach of Sabit M., following the example of his teacher, academician of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan Zh.M. Abdildin) answers request of developing modern science. In addition, Sabit M. conducts independent research on the history of philosophy in its connection with the cultural history of Kazakhstan, on current problems of the country's development in conditions of independence, while paying special attention to the need for the most careful attitude to the spiritual and moral values and inalienable rights of the state-forming Kazakh people.
Sabit M. actively participates in public life and remains an optimist, a convinced supporter of progressive trends in the development of Kazakh society and deeply believes in the future of the country, in the future of the Kazakh people. He headed the trade union and party organizations of the Institute of Philosophy and Law of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan, was elected as a people's deputy of the Frunzensky District Council of the city of Almaty, was a member of the editorial board of the 20-volume series "World Philosophical Heritage" in the Kazakh language, and is the editor-in-chief of the philosophical almanac "Modernity: a world of opinions" .
He was awarded the “Veteran of Labor” medal, the “Y. Altynsarin” medal of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan, as well as the “St. George” badge of the European Cultural-Historical Scientific Union named after Alexander III, is an honorary citizen of the Lebyazhinsky district of the Pavlodar region, an honorary professor of Pavlodar State University named after S. Toraigyrov and Pavlodar State Pedagogical Institute.