Tracing Quotations
D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson? Kenneth E. Boulding? John Hospers? Daniel Dennett? William H. Calvin? William Pittenger? Apocryphal? Question for Quote Investigator: Scottish biologist D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson often receives credit for the following concise statement about biological structures: Everything is what it is because it got that way. Thompson authored the influential 1917 book “On Growth and …
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Richard Feynman? Daniel Dennett? J. J. Hahn? ArthurBloch? Apocryphal? Anonymous? Question for Quote Investigator: Here are two instances from a family of sayings about questions and answers: (1) Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned. (2) I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than …
John Maynard Keynes? Daniel Dennett? Isaiah Berlin? Eloise Jarvis McGraw? Herman Melville? T. H. Pear? Anonymous? Question for Quote Investigator: Are our thoughts composed of basic elements? Do we contemplate words, pictures, video snippets, or perception patterns while cogitating? I was reminded of this classic epistemological question by recent advancements in the field of artificial …
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