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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
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
No milk, gone out for breakfast, then to Hamleys, want to beat crowds. PS Know who killed Quine.
— Robert Galbraith
'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
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
We do not learn first what to talk about and then what to say about it.
— Willard Van Orman Quine
To be is to be the value of a bound variable.
— Willard Van Orman Quine
I never really followed grunge.
— Robert Quine
Some may find comfort in reflecting that the distinction between an eliminative and an explicative physicalism is unreal.
— Willard Van Orman Quine
I know Quine, by the way. Real asshole.
— William Gibson
Science is not a substitute for common sense, but an extension of it.
— Willard Van Orman Quine
Logic is an old subject, and since 1879 it has been a great one.
— Willard Van Orman Quine
How many possible men are there in that doorway?
— 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
Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.
— Willard Van Orman Quine
