Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes

Our acceptance of an ontology is, I think, similar in principle to our acceptance of a scientific theory, say a system of physics;we adopt, at least insofar as we are reasonable, the simplest conceptual scheme into which the disordered fragments of raw experience can be fitted and arranged.

Willard Van Orman Quine

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• My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the day would come to shop. He knew the classical repertoire inside out.

  

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• Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.

  

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• My favorite animal is steak.

  

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• It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.

  

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• It's one of the hardest things in life - choosing your own name.

  

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• Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.

  

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• I'm a hoot and a half, I like to think.

  

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• I'm really a family girl. My mom's like, 'As soon as you're on your own, we're going to move back to Indiana.' Well, that might be when I'm 26.

  

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• I never thought I was going to leave the trap. I even told my mother, 'I'm gonna be the trap God.'

  

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• As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.

  

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• We all have our likes and our dislikes. But... when we're doing news - when we're doing the front-page news, not the back page, not the op-ed pages, but when we're doing the daily news, covering politics - it is our duty to be sure that we do not permit our prejudices to show. That is simply basic journalism.

  

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• But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God.

  

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• Um, I have an enormous faith in God. I have an enormous support system that also has that same belief.

  

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• I was always interested in film, but I never knew how to go about becoming a filmmaker.

  

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• Our acceptance of an ontology is, I think, similar in principle to our acceptance of a scientific theory, say a system of physics;we adopt, at least insofar as we are reasonable, the simplest conceptual scheme into which the disordered fragments of raw experience can be fitted and arranged.

  

  Willard Van Orman Quine
  • Thinking
  • Acceptance
  • Physics