On The Plurality of Worlds/chapter 3

Famous quotes containing the words plurality, worlds and/or chapter:

    “A plurality should not be asserted without necessity.”
    —William Of Ockham (1300–1348)

    “The ideal of men and women sharing equally in parenting and working is a vision still. What would it be like if women and men were less different from each other, if our worlds were not so foreign? A male friend who shares daily parenting told me that he knows at his very core what his wife’s loving for their daughter feels like, and that this knowing creates a stronger bond between them.”
    —Anonymous Mother. Ourselves and Our Children, by Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, ch. 6 (1978)

    “When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.”
    —John Donne (c. 1572–1631)