R Carnap Quotes

#1. Speaking to bloggers on a daily basis.

Nan Aron

#2. Four days, eight days, twelve days passed, and he was invited to teas, to suppers, to lunches. They sat talking through the long green afternoons - they talked of art, of literature, of life, of society and politics. They ate ice creams and squabs and drank good wines.

Ray Bradbury

#3. Let us be cautious in making assertions and critical in examining them, but tolerant in permitting linguistic forms.
[Carnap's famous plea for tolerance to which W.V. Quine took exception.]

Rudolf Carnap

#4. In logic, there are no morals.

Rudolf Carnap

#5. He alone can meet my eyes without disgust or fear. He alone still sees the girl inside the monster. But it is not enough.

Jessica Khoury

#6. According to Carnap, ... "reality"is a metaphysical term for which there is no legitimate use ...
We are interested in other people's loves and hates, pleasures and pains, because we are firmly persuaded
that they are as "real" as our own. We mean something we say this.

Bertrand Russell

#7. In science there are no 'depths'; there is surface everywhere.

Rudolf Carnap

#8. 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.

Hilary Putnam

#9. If one is interested in the relations between fields which, according to customary academic divisions, belong to different departments, then he will not be welcomed as a builder of bridges, as he might have expected, but will rather be regarded by both sides as an outsider and troublesome intruder.

Rudolf Carnap

#10. The self is the class (not the collection) of the experiences (or autopsychological states). The self does not belong to the expression of the basic experience, but is constructed only on a very high level.

Rudolf Carnap

#11. Everything bad about France was transferred to Quebec.

Jacques Villeneuve

#12. A homemade cupcake deserves a homemade icing.

Kim Knott

#13. Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems.

Rudolf Carnap

#14. It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions.

Rudolf Carnap

#15. Gabriel's green eyes sought Will. "It was demon pox, wasn't it? You know all about it, don't you? Aren't you some sort of expert?"
"Well, you needn't act as if I invented it," said Will.

Cassandra Clare

#16. The Lord put me on television to do these things I want to do in the community. And He knew I had a lot to learn. That's why I've been on TV 16 years - not because I'm the greatest actress, but because I need the money.

Marla Gibbs

#17. Metaphysicians are musicians without musical ability.

Rudolf Carnap

#18. I have but one candle of life to burn, and I would rather burn it out in a land filled with darkness than in a land flooded with light.

Ion Keith-Falconer

#19. Anything you can do, I can do meta

Rudolf Carnap

#20. Sometimes a stronger, more realistic faith is birthed in the darkest of pits.

Jo Ann Fore

#21. Science is a system of statements based on direct experience, and controlled by experimental verification. Verification in science is not, however, of single statements but of the entire system or a sub-system of such statements.

Rudolf Carnap

#22. Curation is more than packaging-it is to help readers [discern] what is important in the world.

Maria Popova

#23. Life itself is a school, and Nature always a fresh study.

Hugh Miller