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Permalink Reply by Nelson on August 26, 2010 at 12:54am

hey Brooke if you like quotes you'll certainly like the Quote of the Day group. :)

here's a quote for you:
"There may be rhetoric about the socially constructed nature of Western science, but whatever it matters, there is no alternative. There are no specifically Hindu or Taoist designs for mobile phones... There are no satellites based on feminist alternatives to quantum theory..."
-Simon Blackburn
seen here.

Permalink Reply by Greg Gorey on November 4, 2010 at 2:36am

"Students of the heavens are separable into astronomers and astrologers as readily as are the minor domestic ruminants into sheep and goats, but the separation of philosophers into sages and cranks seems to be more sensitive to frames of reference."
— W.V.O. Quine

Permalink Reply by Kelly on November 23, 2011 at 11:45pm

"Existence before essence" -Jean Paul Sartre

Permalink Reply by Mike Donohoe on November 24, 2011 at 11:14am

A pretty common one with many paraphrases, but I value the statement of Socrates: You truly begin to learn when you realize that you know nothing. Yep, yep. Keep an open mind, including hardcore reductionists.