Arthur Stanley Eddington
Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.…
Month: February 2010
Willard van Orman Quine
Nonbeing must in some sense be, otherwise what is it that there is not? This tangled doctrine might be nicknamed Plato’s beard; historically it has proved tough, frequently dulling the edge of Occam’s razor.…
William Pitt the Younger
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.…
Gottfried Leibniz
But when a rule is extremely complex, that which conforms to it passes for random.…
Wolcott Gibbs
Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind… Where it all will end, knows God!…
Stanislaw Ulam
The mathematicians know a great deal about very little and the physicists very little about a great deal.…
J B S Haldane
It seems to me immensely unlikely that mind is a mere by-product of matter. For if my mental processes are determined wholly by the motions of atoms in my brain I have no reason to suppose that my beliefs are true. They may be sound chemically, but that does not make them sound logically. And hence I have no reason for supposing my brain to be composed of atoms.…
H L Mencken
Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.…
Thomas Merton
The biggest human temptation is … to settle for too little.…