"No one would suggest that we can adequately investigate what makes something an acid, or what makes something aluminum, by bringing our pretheoretical intuitions about these things into reflective equilibrium by way of armchair theorising."

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Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

Hilary Kornblith

#Intuition Quotes #Aluminum Quotes #Way Quotes

“No man is above the law, and no man is below it.”
“When I grew up in Tanzania, I went to school with kids who were blind and deaf, and we were all in one class. There wasn't a different class or teacher for them, so they didn't learn anything. I'm hoping to organize a school to train teachers to help children with disabilities. It's my future goal. I want to move back to Tanzania and do that eventually.”

Source : Source: www.glamour.com
“Every deviation from the rules of charity and brotherly love, of gentleness and forbearance, of meekness and patience, which our Lord prescribes to his disciples, however it may appear to be founded on an attachment to Him and zeal for His service, is in truth a departure from the religion of Him, "the Son of Man," who "came not to destroy men's lives, but to save them.”

Source : Richard Mant (1828). “Biographical Notices of the Apostles, Evangelists and Other Saints: With Reflexions and Collects : Adapted to the Minor Festivals of the United Church of England and Ireland”, p.396
“No matter where you put me, I don't care if it is North Carolina, Florida, California, New York City; I'm going to be who I am.”

Source : Interview with Teena Apeles, me.askmen.com.
“In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.”
“If you want people to know what your message is, just sing it.”

Source : Twitter post from Mar 26, 2014
“I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph; with time it fades.”

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