The Fabric

Famous quotes containing the word fabric:

“Men may die, but the fabric of our free institutions remains unshaken.”
—Chester A. Arthur (1829–1886)

“The totality of our so-called knowledge or beliefs, from the most casual matters of geography and history to the profoundest laws of atomic physics or even of pure mathematics and logic, is a man-made fabric which impinges on experience only along the edges. Or, to change the figure, total science is like a field of force whose boundary conditions are experience.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)