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Philosophy of science is philosophy enough.
— Willard Van Orman Quine
But there is no doubt that my own views on this are, in quite a number of ways, very different from those of Quine.
— Hilary Kornblith
The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples.
— Willard Van Orman Quine
Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels.
— Willard Van Orman Quine
Irrefragability, thy name is mathematics.
— Willard Van Orman Quine
Meanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in New York and moved here in August '71.
— Robert Quine
The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences. A pale gray lore, black with fact and white with convention.
— Willard Van Orman Quine
It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it.
— Willard Van Orman Quine
Implication is thus the very texture of our web of belief, and logic is the theory that traces it.
— Willard Van Orman Quine
One man's antinomy is another man's falsidical paradox, give or take a couple of thousand years.
— Willard Van Orman Quine
Language is a social art.
— Willard Van Orman Quine
Necessity resides in the way we talk about things, not in the things we talk about.
— Willard Van Orman Quine
Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.
— Willard Van Orman Quine
Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption.
— Willard Van Orman Quine
No milk, gone out for breakfast, then to Hamleys, want to beat crowds. PS Know who killed Quine.
— Robert Galbraith
The scientist is indistinguishable from the common man in his sense of evidence, except that the scientist is more careful.
— Willard Van Orman Quine
Our argument is not flatly circular, but something like it. It has the form, figuratively speaking, of a closed curve in space.
— Willard Van Orman Quine
How many possible men are there in that doorway?
— Willard Van Orman Quine
To be is to be the value of a variable.
— Willard Van Orman Quine
Life is what the least of us make the most of us feel the least of us make the most of.
— Willard Van Orman Quine
One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.
— Willard Van Orman Quine
Believing is a disposition. We could tire ourselves out thinking, if we put our minds to it, but believing takes no toll.
— Willard Van Orman Quine
Logic chases truth up the tree of grammar.
— Willard Van Orman Quine
Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation
— Willard Van Orman Quine
Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.
— Willard Van Orman Quine
I saw Suicide in '74 and it was pretty horrifying.
— Robert Quine
I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience.
— Robert Quine
By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso.
— Robert Quine
Unscientific man is beset by a deplorable desire to have been right. The scientist is distinguished by a desire to be right.
— Willard Van Orman Quine
Some may find comfort in reflecting that the distinction between an eliminative and an explicative physicalism is unreal.
— Willard Van Orman Quine
I have been accused of denying consciousness but I am not conscious of having done so.
— Willard Van Orman Quine
After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.
— Robert Quine
It is within science itself, and not in some prior philosophy, that reality is to be identified and described.
— Willard Van Orman Quine
I never really followed grunge.
— Robert Quine
'Ouch' is not independent of social training. One has only to prick a foreigner to appreciate that it is an English word.
— Willard Van Orman Quine
Creatures inveterately wrong in their inductions have a pathetic but praise-worthy tendency to die before reproducing their kind.
— Willard Van Orman Quine
To define an expression is, paradoxically speaking, to explain how to get along without it. To define is to eliminate.
— Willard Van Orman Quine
To be is to be the value of a bound variable.
— Willard Van Orman Quine
I started off with the really funky stuff like Ramsey Lewis, Milt Jackson, Kenny Burrell.
— Robert Quine
Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics.
— Robert Quine
The word 'definition' has come to have a dangerously reassuring sound, owing no doubt to its frequent occurrence in logical and mathematical writings.
— Willard Van Orman Quine
Logic is an old subject, and since 1879 it has been a great one.
— Willard Van Orman Quine
We do not learn first what to talk about and then what to say about it.
— Willard Van Orman Quine
Science is not a substitute for common sense, but an extension of it.
— Willard Van Orman Quine
I know Quine, by the way. Real asshole.
— William Gibson