“Language Makes Infinite Use of Finite Media” – Wilhelm von Humboldt
“Language makes infinite use of finite media.”
Wilhelm von Humboldt
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Quote by Allan Bloom on Divine and Human Creativity
“It is easy today to deny God’s creativity as a thing of the benighted past, overcome by science, but man’s creativity, a thing much more improbable and nothing but an imitation of God’s, exercises a strange attraction.”
Allan Bloom
Alan Kay on Java, C++ and New Ideas
“Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.”
Alan Kay
Rational Discussion – Quote by Karl Popper
“You cannot have a rational discussion with a man who prefers shooting you to being convinced by you.”
Karl Popper
Allan Bloom on the University and Reason
“The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.”
Allan Bloom
Leisure and Entertainment – Quote by Allan Bloom
“[A]ny notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men’s taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared. Leisure became entertainment.”
Allan Bloom
Thomas Kuhn on Scientific Revolutions and Knowledge
“The resolution of revolutions is selection by conflict within the scientific community of the fittest way to practice future science. The net result of a sequence of such revolutionary selections, separated by periods of normal research, is the wonderfully adapted set of instruments we call modern scientific knowledge.”
Thomas Kuhn
Ben Carson Quote About Hard Work and Perseverance
“Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.”
Ben Carson
Quote by Allan Bloom on Natural and Social Sciences
“The expectation of substantive unity between natural science and social science has faded…. Gone is the cosmic intention of placing man in the universe.”
Allan Bloom
Stella McCartney Quote on Animal Consumption and Sustainability
“The consumption of animals – whether you’re wearing them or eating them – is extraordinarily damaging to the planet. There are over a billion animals killed a year for food, half of which don’t even get eaten. And there’s over 50 million animals killed just for fashion.”
Stella McCartney