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David’s Quotes

“Overt intelligent performances are not clues to the workings of minds; they are those workings.”
― Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind

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“Under normal conditions the research scientist is not an innovator but a solver of puzzles, and the puzzles upon which he concentrates are just those which he believes can be both stated and solved within the existing scientific tradition.”
― Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

tags: philosophy-of-science, science

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“To do the job which you’ve got really well; so well that you don’t lose your self-respect doing it’:”
― Ray Monk, Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius

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“I was in too much haste, and now have no time left.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

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“Pilon complained, "It is not a good story. There are too many meanings and too many lessons in it. Some of those lessons are opposite. There is not a story to take into your head. It proves nothing."

"I like it" said Pablo. "I like it because it hasn't any meaning you can see, and still it does seem to mean something, I can't tell what.”
― John Steinbeck, Tortilla Flat

tags: stories

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