Famous quotes containing the words based, exit and/or numbering:
“Any reductionist program has to be based on an analysis of what is to be reduced. If the analysis leaves something out, the problem will be falsely posed.”
—Thomas Nagel (b. 1938)
“Exit the mental moonlight, exit lex,
Rex and principium, exit the whole
Shebang. Exeunt omnes. Here was prose
More exquisite than any tumbling verse:
A still new continent in which to dwell.”
—Wallace Stevens (18791955)
“The task he undertakes
Is numbering sands and drinking oceans dry.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)