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Alfred Tarski

"If a mathematician wishes to disparage the work of one of his colleagues, say, A, the most effective method he finds for doing this is to ask where the results can be applied. The hard pressed man, with his back against the wall, finally unearths the researches of another mathematician B as the locus of the application of his own results. If next B is plagued with a similar question, he will refer to another mathematician C. After a few steps of this kind we find ourselves referred back to the researches of A, and in this way the chain closes."

Source : "Semantics and the Philosophy of Language" edited by L. Linsky, Urbana, (p. 41), 1952.

Alfred Tarski

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“I want to smash this concrete world into oblivion. I want to be bigger, better, stronger. I want to be the bird that flies away.”
“I am able to ride the bike and think clearly about strategy and tyres. I also have positive thinking. I am very constructively critical.”
“There is also a particular frustration that I have with language. It's so clumsy. There's often two words that are close in meaning, yet what I'm trying to say is in between them, or it might be a little more layered and nuanced. Having this conversation with you is exciting, because I can feel you resonate, even though we're on the phone. That's really beautiful to me.”
“I'm famous. That's my job.”
“Nowadays, photographers start out with ideas, and their photos become the expression of an idea. To my way of thinking, a photo should not depend on ideas, should go beyond ideas.”
“Scripture tells us to run with endurance the race that is set before us. As we do, may God hold close those who have been taken from us too soon.”
“A man who keeps a diary pays, Due toll to many tedious days; But life becomes eventfulÂ—then, His busy hand forgets the pen. Most books, indeed, are records less Of fulness than of emptiness.”

Source : William Allingham, Helen Paterson Allingham (1912). “Poems”
“Rain is a blessing when it falls gently on parched fields, turning the earth green, causing the birds to sing.”

Source : Donald Worster (1994). “The Wealth of Nature: Environmental History and the Ecological Imagination”, p.84, Oxford University Press

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