"The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples."

Willard Van Orman Quine, American Philosopher

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"I may be plucky, but I am not stupid."

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"The best way to investigate the elusive phenomenon called the creative process may well be to target all the misconceptions, to explain what the creative process is not."

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"Language is a social art."

"Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption."

"Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump."

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