“We may say that a basic substance is one which has a lone pair of electrons which may be used to complete the stable group of another atom, and that an acid is one which can employ a lone pair from another molecule in completing the stable group of one of its own atoms.” MayUsedGroupsSubstancePairsAtomsStableAcidMoleculesLoneElectronsCompleting Author:Gilbert N. Lewis
“Perhaps the importance that we must attach to the achievement of an artist or a group of artists may properly be measured by the answer to the following question: Have they so wrought that it will be impossible henceforth, for those who follow, ever again to act as if they had not existed?” IfsMayArtistAnswersImpossibleGroupsAchievementImportanceFollowing Book:Walter Sickert: The Complete Writings on Art Source: Walter Sickert: The Complete Writings on Art
“Small groups or communities may be far more oppressive to the individual than larger ones. Men are in many ways freer in large cities than in small villages.” MenWayMayIndividualCommunityFreedomCitiesGroupsOppressionVillageSmall GroupsLarge CitiesSmall Villages Author:Morris Raphael Cohen
“Doubts are suppressed by groups... But remember that the internal incentives that shape how the group perceives risks and rewards may be very different from the reality of the risks and rewards in the external marketplace. Those incentives can distort risk perception.” MayDifferentRealityRememberDoubtRiskGroupsShapesPerceptionRewardsPerceiveInternalsIncentivesMarketplaceRisk And Reward Author:Daniel Kahneman
“In obedience to the feeling of reality, we shall insist that, in the analysis of propositions, nothing "unreal" is to be admitted. But, after all, if there is nothing unreal, how, it may be asked, could we admit anything unreal? The reply is that, in dealing with propositions, we are dealing in the first instance with symbols, and if we attribute significance to groups of symbols which have no significance, we shall fall into the error of admitting unrealities, in the only sense in which this is possible, namely, as objects described.” IfsFirstsMayFeelingsRealityFallGroupsObjectsErrorsInstanceSymbolsObedienceAnalysisSignificanceAttributesPropositionsUnrealAdmittingUnreality Book:Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy Source: Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy