Famous quotes containing the words field and/or von:
“The totality of our so-called knowledge or beliefs, from the most casual matters of geography and history to the profoundest laws of atomic physics or even of pure mathematics and logic, is a man-made fabric which impinges on experience only along the edges. Or, to change the figure, total science is like a field of force whose boundary conditions are experience.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)
“It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)