Van Wert High

Famous quotes containing the words van, wert and/or high:

    “My position is a naturalistic one; I see philosophy not as an a priori propaedeutic or groundwork for science, but as continuous with science. I see philosophy and science as in the same boat—a boat which, to revert to Neurath’s figure as I so often do, we can rebuild only at sea while staying afloat in it. There is no external vantage point, no first philosophy.”
    —Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)

    “My lute, be as thou wert when thou didst grow
    With thy green mother in some shady grove,
    When immelodious winds but made thee move,
    And birds their ramage did on thee bestow.”
    —William Drummond, of Hawthornden (1585–1649)

    “I have the high Satisfaction of beholding all Nature with an unprejudiced Eye.”
    —Richard Steele (1672–1729)