“We think of the number "five" as applying to appropriate groups of any entities whatsoever - to five fishes, five children, five apples, five days... We are merely thinking of those relationships between those two groups which are entirely independent of the individual essences of any of the members of either group. This is a very remarkable feat of abstraction; and it must have taken ages for the human race to rise to it” ThinkingHumansChildrenTwoAgeIndividualNumbersRaceTakenFiveGroupsMembersLogicEssenceIndependentFishesCertaintyUncertaintyHuman RaceApplesReasoningAppropriateRemarkableEntityAbstractionFeatsOntology Author:Alfred North Whitehead
“I would just like my children to be able to eat fish when they grow up. Now, I don't think there's anything controversial about that.” ThinkingChildrenAbleGrowsGrowing UpFishesMy ChildrenControversial Author:James Murdoch
“It's a Vietnamese soup that answers the question, 'What happens when a former child soldier pours hot rain water over fish nightmares.' It's delicious and I can't stop eating it, that's what happens.” ChildrenI CanHappensWaterAnswersEatingRainHotSoldierFishesFormerNightmareSoupDeliciousVietnameseRain WaterChild Soldier Author:Kyle Kinane
“Even as a child back in Indiana, whenever I took a Butterbelly off the hook I used to ask myself, "Does this fish think?" I would even ask others, "Do you suppose this Butterbelly can think?" And all I would get in reply was a look. At the age of eighteen, I left the state.” ThinkingLooksChildrenDoeStatesAgeUsedAsksLeftFishesHookEighteenIndiana Author:Will Cuppy