Main Group Elements

Famous quotes containing the words main, group and/or elements:

“The aphorism wants to be at the same time both main line and off beat.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“around our group I could hear the wilderness listen.”
—William Stafford (1914–1941)

“English general and singular terms, identity, quantification, and the whole bag of ontological tricks may be correlated with elements of the native language in any of various mutually incompatible ways, each compatible with all possible linguistic data, and none preferable to another save as favored by a rationalization of the native language that is simple and natural to us.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)