Logicism Theory Quotes & Sayings

For his part, Mendeleev scanned Lecoq de Boisbaudran's data on gallium and told the experimentalist, with no justification, that he must have measured something wrong, because the density and weight of gallium differed from Mendeleev's predictions. This betrays a flabbergasting amount of gall, but as science philosopher-historian Eric Scerri put it, Mendeleev always "was willing to bend nature to fit his grand philosophical scheme." The only difference between Mendeleev and crackpottery is that Mendeleev was right: Lecoq de Boisbaudran soon retracted his data and published results that corroborated Mendeleev's predictions. — Sam Kean

The fear of climatic catastrophes is an ancient one and not unlike our fear of strangers. In the past, people believed that the climate almost always changes for the worse, and only rarely for the better - God's punishment for sinful behavior. — Hans Von Storch

I've been so amazed at the number of really professional top-of-their-game women who I know to be intelligent, well educated and brilliant who have said, 'What was it like to snog Matt LeBlanc?' — Tamsin Greig

I don't want to do anything to embarrass my family or my church because the town that I come from is so small. There are certain things that I just can't be part of because of my foundation. — Michelle Williams

When one is still and listens, one begins to be in touch with a mysterious element that is within each of us, which can transform and shape us and can help to transform the world. — William Segal

My page was too white
My ink was too thin
The day wouldn't write
What the night pencilled in — Leonard Cohen

It always comes back to the same necessity: go deep enough and there is a bedrock of truth, however hard. — May Sarton

You will never achieve a goal by definition unless you try. — Auliq Ice

Thomas Jefferson declared, stating that he was speaking on behalf of the other founding fathers, ... (that) we should build a wall between the church and state. — Jimmy Carter

Years ago we would have been burned for this. Now what I am suggesting is that we've advanced. — John Cleese

Religion, society and state - from none of these do women get their proper honor. It is religion, which has created an unparalleled disparity between men and women. — Taslima Nasrin

Time is so long when there is suffering and so short when there is happiness. — Manny Steinberg

I look around. You'd have to be out of your fucking mind to write, as Marcus did, that Black History Month is a ploy to lever more entitlement money out of Congress, but the ho-hum nonresponse of the white crowd reading this bit of transparent insanity is, to me, even weirder. — Matt Taibbi

I've always thought I was looking for myself whenever I traveled. Like a journey anywhere was really a journey through myself. — Shirley Maclaine

If all you are going to do in life are the things that are convenient and comfortable, the great things never get done. — George Bernard Shaw