Famous quotes containing the words plurality, worlds and/or chapter:
“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)
“And who in time knowes whither we may vent
The treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores
This gaine of our best glorie shal be sent,
Tinrich unknowing Nations with our stores?
What worlds in thyet unformed Occident
May come refind with thaccents that are ours?”
—Samuel Daniel (c. 15621619)
“When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.”
—John Donne (c. 15721631)