Who ever has the ultimate power
to define
has the ultimate power
There is no royal road to logic, and really valuable ideas can only be had at the price of close attention. But I know that in the matter of ideas the public prefer the cheap and nasty; and in my next paper I am going to return to the easily intelligible, and not wander from it again.
Medewar observes that the standard form of presentation [...] represents the very reverse of what the investigator was in fact doing. In reality, says Medewar, the hypothesis is first posited, and becomes the medium through wich certain otherwise obscure facts (later to be collected in support of it) are first clearly seen.
But the account in the paper is expected to give the impression that such facts first suggested the hypothesis, irrespective of wether this impression is truly representative.
I had a feeling once about Mathematics – that I saw it all. Depth beyond depth was revealed to me – the Byss and Abyss. I saw – as one might see the transit of the venus or even the Lord Mayors’s Show – a quantity passing through infinity and changing its sign from plus to minus. I saw exactly why it happened and why the tergiversation was inevitable but it was after dinner and I let it go.
Sir Winston Churchill
Man, you only know you are laid, relayed and PARlayed, fucked, flustered and far from home.
black pothead
Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
World as a background of obviousness is manifest in our everyday dealings as the familiarity that pervades our situation… (and every possible utterance presupposes this)
Heidegger
Somebody once said that philosophy is the misuse of a terminology which was invented just for this purpose.
In the same vein, I would say that mathematics is the science of skillful operations with concepts and rules invented just for this purpose.
Eugene Wigner
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