John Jamieson Carswell Smart

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    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)

    Mothers have as powerful an influence over the welfare of future generations, as all other causes combined.
    John Abbott. The Mother at Home; or the Principles of Maternal Duty, John Abbott, Crocker and Brewster (1833)

    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)

    A smart man never suffers certain defeat.
    Chinese proverb.