"Just as the introduction of the irrational numbers ... is a convenient myth [which] simplifies the laws of arithmetic ... so physical objects are postulated entities which round out and simplify our account of the flux of existence... The conceptional scheme of physical objects is [likewise] a convenient myth, simpler than the literal truth and yet containing that literal truth as a scattered part."

-- Willard Van Orman Quine

#Law Quotes #Numbers Quotes #Flux Quotes

“The best picture has not yet been painted; the greatest poem is still unsung; the mightiest novel remains to be written; the divinest music has not been conceived, even by Bach. In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has not yet been discovered.”
“Thank God I have music to vent my emotions. I'd be in a prison if I didn't.”
“Perhaps the most important thing I can tell you about equipment is to experiment and keep an open mind.”
“Truth is a great flirt.”

Source : Franz Liszt (1979). “The Letters of Franz Liszt to Olga Von Meyendorff, 1871-1886, in the Mildred Bliss Collection at Dumbarton Oaks”, p.427, Dumbarton Oaks
“I'm a terrible singer, but it helps when I have to call a taxi.”

Source : "'I want to make the world better'". Interview with Vadim Prokhorov, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2005.
“That's just my family's mentality. We are a very loving, hugging and kissing kind of family. And we grew up in a church atmosphere and still have that atmosphere. There is no negativity.”
“If someone gave the Russians a football, they'd win the Super Bowl in two years.”
“The fashion industry is no more able to preserve a style that men and women have decided to abandon than to introduce one they do not choose to accept.”

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