Rudolf Carnap Quotes

#1. 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

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

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#3. Ragnor and Catarina both begged him to give the instrument up. Random strangers on the street begged him to give the instrument up. Even cats ran away from him.

Cassandra Clare

#4. Why can't we repeat 8th grace five times and call that a high school education?

Audrey Regan

#5. 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.]

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#6. In logic, there are no morals.

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

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#8. Cheerily to sea; the signs of war advance:
No king of England, if not king of France

William Shakespeare

#9. Simone W eil has said that though a person may run as fast as he can away from Christ, if it is toward what he considers true, he runs in fact straight into the arms of Christ. Much

Alexander Schmemann

#10. We need to remake the Democratic party. We need to remake America.

Al Gore

#11. 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.

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#12. 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.

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#13. Jay-Z called me onstage during my song that I produced for 'Watch the Throne?' That was surreal, man. One of those situations I'll never forget. I'll be able to show my kids the footage of when Jay-Z brought me onstage.

Hit-Boy

#14. You don't know how to pray? Put yourself in the presence of God, and as soon as you have said, 'Lord, I don't know how to pray!" you can be sure you have already begun."

Josemaria Escriva

#15. All are keeping a sharp look-out in front, but none suspects that the danger may be creeping up from behind.

James M. Barrie

#16. When you can't smoke, if you stand and stare out of the window on your own, you're an antisocial, friendless idiot. If you stand and stare out of the window on your own with a cigarette, you're a philosopher.

Rory Sutherland

#17. Metaphysicians are musicians without musical ability.

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#18. I'm afraid there's a big confusion in the world between nuclear power and nuclear arms.

Abdus Salam

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

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#20. 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.

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#21. The truly great person is the one who gives you a chance.

Paul Duffy

#22. I believe that God is (and must be) a transcendent presence in any worthy work of art.

Joy Williams

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

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