"Aristotelian logic is massive and marmoreal, but every……" — David Berlinski
"Aristotelian logic is massive and marmoreal, but every monument accumulates graffiti."
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29 Quotes by David Berlinski
David Berlinski has 29 quotes on this site.
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Darwin's theory of evolution is the last of the great nineteenth-century mystery religions. And as we speak it is now…
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There are gaps in the fossil graveyard, places where there should be intermediate forms, but where there is nothing whatsoever…
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Ultimately, Leibniz argued, there are only two absolutely simple concepts, God and Nothingness. From these, all other concepts may be…
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If moral statements are about something, then the universe is not quite as science suggests it is, since physical theories,…
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Commentators who today talk of 'The Dark Ages' when faith instead of reason was said to ruthlessly rule, have for…
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Just who has imposed on the suffering human race poison gas, barbed wire, high explosives, experiments in eugenics, the formula…
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Darwinism is not a sufficient condition for a phenomenon like Nazism but I think it's certainly a necessary one,
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I do not know whether any of this is true. I am certain that the scientific community does not know…
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Although every novel is derived directly from another novel, there is really only one novel, the Quixote.
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While science has nothing of value to say on the great and aching questions of life, death, love and meaning,…
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Validity is the touchstone of inference, and truth of judgment: the fact that vichyssoise is cold ratifies the judgment that…
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The definition of a limit is essentially his [Cauchy's] creation and is as much of a miracle as those fantastic…
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More Accumulates Quotes
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one of 54 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
— Henry Adams
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Every tradition grows continually more venerable, and the more remote its origins, the more this is lost sight of. The…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The man of meditation becomes the man of understanding because his energy accumulates. He is not wasting it. He is…
— Rajneesh
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If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it,…
— Unknown Author
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Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future. In other words, if we're going to…
— Pema Chodron
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As capital accumulates, the lot of the laborer must grow worse.
— Karl Marx
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Wealth accumulates, and men decay.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Death is not a blotting-out of existence, a final escape from life; nor is death the door to immortality. He…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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As individuals, as families, as neighbors, as members of one community, people of all races and political views are usually…
— Dean Koontz
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Steven Erikson is an extraordinary writer. I read Gardens of the Moon with great pleasure. And now that I have…
— Stephen R. Donaldson
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Broken Window Theory: Consider a building with a few broken windows. If the windows are not repaired, the tendency is…
— James Q. Wilson
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