Quotes
March 8, 2011
1) Isaiah Berlin on why he left philosophy for history:
… because I found I had a strong desire to know more at the end of my life than I knew at the beginning.
(He’s not totally dumping on philosophy. He goes on to say that philosophy generates knowledge — but in the form of insight and self-knowledge, rather than knowledge about the world. Still funny.)
2) Bernd Matthias:
Everything that is true is very simple, once we understand it. It’s only complicated when we don’t.
3) Einstein, on the definition of science:
the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.
