Arthur Stanley Eddington

Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.

27 February 2010 | 23:01 | No Comments


Willard van Orman Quine

Nonbeing must in some sense be, otherwise what is it that there is not? This tangled doctrine might be nicknamed Plato’s beard; historically it has proved tough, frequently dulling the edge of Occam’s razor.

26 February 2010 | 20:40 | No Comments


William Pitt the Younger

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

23 February 2010 | 22:20 | No Comments


Gottfried Leibniz

But when a rule is extremely complex, that which conforms to it passes for random.

22 February 2010 | 22:10 | No Comments


Wolcott Gibbs

Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind… Where it all will end, knows God!

20 February 2010 | 11:46 | No Comments


Stanislaw Ulam

The mathematicians know a great deal about very little and the physicists very little about a great deal.

14 February 2010 | 22:39 | No Comments