Famous quotes containing the words general and/or von:
“Treating ‘water’ as a name of a single scattered object is not intended to enable us to dispense with general terms and plurality of reference. Scatter is in fact an inconsequential detail.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)
“That we understand something perfectly, that we accomplish something better than anyone else around us, that is what matters.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)