Famous quotes containing the words van and/or wrote:
“Irrefragability, thy name is mathematics.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)
“Somerset Maugham ... wrote somewhere that “Nobody is any better than he ought to be.”... I carried it along with me as a working philosophy, but I suppose that finally I would have to take exception to the thought ... or else the universe is just an elaborate clock.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)