"To be is to be the value of…" — Willard Van Orman Quine

"To be is to be the value of a variable."

— Willard Van Orman Quine

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28 Quotes by Willard Van Orman Quine

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Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump…
Science is not a substitute for common sense, but an extension of it.
Life is agid, life is fulgid. Life is what the least of us make most of us feel the least…
It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does…
Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation
Logic is an old subject, and since 1879 it has been a great one.
Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.
No two of us learn our language alike, nor, in a sense, does any finish learning it while he lives.
Creatures inveterately wrong in their inductions have a pathetic but praise-worthy tendency to die before reproducing their kind.
Just as the introduction of the irrational numbers ... is a convenient myth [which] simplifies the laws of arithmetic ...…
For me the problem of induction is a problem about the world: a problem of how we, as we are…
Students of the heavens are separable into astronomers and astrologers as readily as the minor domestic ruminants into sheep and…

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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. — Neil Armstrong
All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter. — Sai Baba
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration. — Ansel Adams
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. — Matsuo Basho
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive… — Saint Basil
Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation. — Charles Baudelaire
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. — Saul Bellow
If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else. — Yogi Berra
United we stand, divided we fall. — Aesop
Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles. — Thomas Browne

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