It is the faithfulness of God that allows epistemology to model ontology.
Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.
There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians, , , and .
I hate driving a bandwagon.
Time becomes more precious when you have children.
Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis.
Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
First, I identify an analogous problem in nature and borrow from it.
Science is our last and greatest frontier.
One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.
Who will observe the observers?
One cannot plan for the unexpected.
I grew up in a semi-slum area in Gavipuram, Guttahalli.
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
God who gave Animals self motion beyond our understanding is without doubt able to implant other principles of motion in bodies [which] we may understand as little. Some would readily grant this may be a Spiritual one; yet a mechanical one might be s...
Many years later he looked through one of my books and said, "How did you learn all this, Isaac?" "From you, Pappa", I said. "From me? I don't know any of this". "You didn't have to, Pappa", I said. "You valued learning and you taught me to value it....
Mary Wilke: Well tell me, why did you get a divorce? Isaac Davis: Why? I got a divorce because my ex-wife left me for another woman. Mary Wilke: Really? God, that must have been really demoralizing. Isaac Davis: Well, I dunno, I thought I took it rat...
Mary Wilke: Don't psychoanalyze me. I pay a doctor for that. Isaac Davis: Hey, you call that guy that you talk to a doctor? I mean, you don't get suspicious when your analyst calls you at home at three in the morning and weeps into the telephone? Mar...
Isaac Davis: Has anybody read that Nazis are gonna march in New Jersey? Y'know, I read this in the newspaper. We should go down there, get some guys together, y'know, get some bricks and baseball bats and really explain things to them. Party Guest: T...
The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.
