Famous quotes containing the words function, theory and/or representing:
“Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.”
—Arnold Bennett (18671931)
“It makes no sense to say what the objects of a theory are,
beyond saying how to interpret or reinterpret that theory in another.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)
“... today we round out the first century of a professed republic,with woman figuratively representing freedomand yet all free, save woman.”
—Phoebe W. Couzins (18451913)
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