Excluded Volume Interaction

Famous quotes containing the words excluded, volume and/or interaction:

    “Reasoning from the common course of nature, and without supposing any new interposition of the Supreme Cause, which ought always to be excluded from philosophy; what is incorruptible must also be ingenerable. The soul, therefore, if immortal, existed before our birth: And if the former existence noways concerned us, neither will the latter.”
    —David Hume (1711–1776)

    “To be thoroughly conversant with a Man’s heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of despair.”
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1845)

    “UG [universal grammar] may be regarded as a characterization of the genetically determined language faculty. One may think of this faculty as a ‘language acquisition device,’ an innate component of the human mind that yields a particular language through interaction with present experience, a device that converts experience into a system of knowledge attained: knowledge of one or another language.”
    —Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)