“Knapsack of the Metaphysicians.- Those who boast so mightily of the scientificality of their metaphysics should receive no answer; it is enough to pluck at the bundle which, with a certain degree of embarrassment, they keep concealed behind their back; if one succeeds in opening it, the products of that scientificality come to light, attended by their blushes: a dear little Lord God, a nice little immortality, perhaps a certain quantity of spiritualism, and in any event a whole tangled heap of 'wretched poor sinner' and Pharisee arrogance.” IfsShouldLittlesEnoughPhilosophyWholeLightCertainAnswersPoorBehindsLordNiceEventsProductsSucceedDegreesDearOpeningImmortalityArroganceSinnerQuantityMetaphysicsBoastWretchedEmbarrassmentConcealedTangledPluckBundlesSpiritualismLord GodPharisees Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“A Yea might turn in to a Nae and vice versa if a sufficient quantity of wordage was applied. In other talk you argument out until you get the answer you want.” IfsWantMightTurnsAnswersArgumentVicesSufficientQuantityVice Versa Author:Leonard Wibberley
“The page of my notebook was filled with many messy integrals, but all of a sudden I saw emerge a formula for counting. I had begun to calculate a quantity on the assumption that the result was a real number, but found instead that, in certain units, all the possible answers would be integers. This meant that areas and volumes cannot take any value, but come in multiples of fixed units.” RealWould BeCertainValuesFoundAnswersResultsNumbersSawsPagesAreasMathematicsFilledFixedAssumptionFormulasQuantityVolumeUnitsCountingMessyNotebookIntegers Book:Three Roads To Quantum Gravity Source: Three Roads To Quantum Gravity
“Where else is fatness at a premium? The answer is clear. There are two classes of mammals which are liable to accumulate large quantities of adipose tissue - hibernating mammals and aquatic mammals.” TwoAnswersClassClearQuantityLiableTissuesMammalsPremiumFatness Book:The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis Source: The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis
“I met a lot of the senior Taliban, and I asked them precisely [about Mullah Omar]. The most common answer was he is humble. And that was very true. We never had reports of Mullah Omar living luxuriously or making money in large quantities or anything like that.” AnswersCommonMetsHumbleMaking MoneyReportsQuantitySeniorTalibanVery TrueOmar Author:Ahmed Rashid