"If pressed to supplement Tweedledee's ostensive definition of logic with a discursive definition of the same subject, I would say that logic is the systematic study of the logical truths. Pressed further, I would say that a sentence is logically true if all sentences with its grammatical structure are true. Pressed further still, I would say to read this book."

-- Willard Van Orman Quine

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“Our world is moving at an ever-accelerating pace, and with the advent of social media, what happens in New York now can be reported across the globe 60 seconds later.”

Source : "Sir Stuart Rose on the changing role of business leaders". www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2012.
“It is not possible to find a landscape, which if painted precisely as it is, will not make an impressive picture. No one knows, till he has tried, what strange beauty and subtle composition is prepared to his hand by Nature.”
“The history of the human race is a continual struggle from darkness into light. It is, therefore, to no purpose to discuss the use of knowledge; man wants to know, and when he ceases to do so, is no longer a man.”
“The death of deference seems to be general at the moment, so everybody has to earn their reputation and trust all over again. You don't just get it by virtue of being a professor or a politician or anybody else.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“Finding the funny is the key to never losing your edge”
“Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and that is its whole secret.”
“First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people.”

Source : "Comic Sections: Book of Mathematical Jokes, Humour, Wit and Wisdom". Book by Des MacHale, 1993.
“I'm an F-18, bro, and I will destroy you in the air and deploy my ordnance to the ground.”

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