Quotes of quotes.
Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
A quote attributed to Richard Feynman, though published by Steven Weinberg in Nature 330 (1987): p433-. My lying heart likes it as much as it is written from a philosophy of science’s point of view.
This coat my royal gown
A stolen hand-me-down
No need to scrape and bow
We can be heroes now
For more than just one day
Here’s how
Look both ways when crossing roads
Don’t wear slippers till you’re old
Never do what you are told
Lyrics of “Never do what you are told” by Chumbawamba. The song appeared on their 1994/1998 album “Anarchy” (amg).
Have you begun to question the rules of this game,
reflect on your actions and take some of the blame.
Words by Victor Kahn, leading you straight to The Great Illusion, a wonderful place to experience another reality.
Thoughts are like mirrors ~ just slightly bizarre,
and it all comes from wishing each night on a star.
[Quotes taken from “The Tiger Within” by Victor Kahn with illustrations by Jim Warren.]
Words ought not to be trusted – you can never be sure if they mean what they say.
— Ashleigh Brilliant
Let’s assume that when people say something they generally mean something different. Then, the question “What do you mean?” generally makes no sense at all.
If you think that some people at least sometimes do say what they mean, well, I anyway do understand something different from what they say let alone what they mean.
So, what does it mean when someone says that she or he makes a lot of use of dictionaries and thesauruses searching for word origins? Like Dave Pollard just wrote? Or like half of my own blog?
What does it mean if someone is especially picky about words, if we try to be precise, if we try to avoid obfuscation and ambiguity, and if we moreover foster meaning with references?
Experts of wording driving away from their audience, burying augury of knowledge in wisdom, the paradox of communication, blatant honesty about lying.
Of course, this makes sense to us, anyway.
Someone has to say it all:
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
— Bertrand Russell.
Useless, but true (fun).
just because this is “Art” doesn’t mean anyone fucking cares.
I do not care. I do not care that no one cares. I do not care about a piece of “Art” telling me that I possibly do not care. What does it mean to take no care? Ignore me! If I do not care that I do not care I could just as well care about it. … And, yet, we have not talked about what “Art” means, nor why anyone fucking should care or why anyone would want to care at all.
Using words to describe magic
is like using a screwdriver
to cut roast beef.— Tom Robbins
A bit beyond perception’s reach
I sometimes believe I see
that Life is two locked boxes, each
containing the other’s key.— Piet Hein: Grooks
