Passive Cable Theory

Famous quotes containing the words passive, cable and/or theory:

“To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.”
—Simone De Beauvoir (1908–1986)

“To be where little cable cars climb halfway to the stars.”
—Douglass Cross (b. 1920)

“every subjective phenomenon is essentially connected with a single point of view, and it seems inevitable that an objective, physical theory will abandon that point of view.”
—Thomas Nagel (b. 1938)