Famous quotes containing the words von, set and/or theory:
“Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.”
—Otto Von Bismarck (1815–1898)
“There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.”
—Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–1978)
“Everything to which we concede existence is a posit from the standpoint of a description of the theory-building process, and simultaneously real from the standpoint of the theory that is being built. Nor let us look down on the standpoint of the theory as make-believe; for we can never do better than occupy the standpoint of some theory or other, the best we can muster at the time.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)