Famous quotes containing the words carswell smart, john, carswell and/or smart:
“When a person says, I see a yellowish-orange after-image, he is saying something like this: There is something going on which is like what is going on when I have my eyes open, am awake, and there is an orange illuminated in good light in front of me, that is, when I really see an orange.”
—John Jamieson Carswell Smart (b. 1920)
“It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.”
—Cardinal John Henry Newman (18011890)
“When a person says, I see a yellowish-orange after-image, he is saying something like this: There is something going on which is like what is going on when I have my eyes open, am awake, and there is an orange illuminated in good light in front of me, that is, when I really see an orange.”
—John Jamieson Carswell Smart (b. 1920)
“He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.”
—Franz Grillparzer (17911872)