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about experience, knowledge
"That all our knowledge begins with experience, there is indeed no doubt....but although our knowledge originates WITH experience, it does not all arise OUT OF experience."
"Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means....[A] machine might be imagined where the assumptions were put in at one end, while the theorems came out at the other, like the legendary Chicago machine where the pigs go in alive and come out transformed into hams and sausages. No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does."
"It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condenced, the deeper they burn."
Morticia Addams - from the Addams Family movie
"We gladly feast on those who would subdue us ... not just pretty words, Fester."
"Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem (Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.)"
"Tongue - a variety of meat, rarely served because it clearly crosses the line between a cut of beef and a piece of dead cow."
"This coffee plunges into the stomach...the mind is aroused, and ideas pour forth like the battalions of the Grand Army on the field of battle.... Memories charge at full gallop...the light cavalry of comparisons deploys itself magnificently; the artillery of logic hurry in with their train of ammunition; flashes of wit pop up like sharp-shooters."