"It was Rudolf Carnap's dream for the last three decades of his life to show that science proceeds by a formal syntactic method; today no one to my knowledge holds out any hope for that project."

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Source : "Hilary Putnam: Pragmatism and Realism". Book by James Conant and Urszula M. Zeglen, 2002.

Hilary Putnam

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“The arc of the celebrity phenomenon ultimately is: everything turns to dust and everything does go away.”

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“Bradford Dillman sounded like a distinguished, phony theatrical name, so I kept it.”
“Although I may try to describe Love, When I experience it, I am speechless.”
“I hate to see a woman cry, unless of course I'm crying first in which case I feel it's appropriate.”
“You go into the voting booths and you can rank your choices. So your first choice is an underdog that might not win, you know, that your choice number two, which might be your lesser evil, your safety choice, your vote is automatically reassigned from your first choice to your second choice if your first choice losses and there's not a majority winner. So it essentially eliminates, splitting it, eliminates having to vote your fear instead of your values.”
“Listen to everyone, read everything; believe absolutely nothing unless you can prove it in your own right!”
“At 'Price Is Right,' people feel so safe there and loved. And if you can't jump around on 'Price is Right,' then you can't jump around anywhere, you know?”
“Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core.”

Source : Timothy Thomas Fortune, Seth Moglen (2007). “Black and White: Land, Labor, and Politics in the South”, Simon and Schuster

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