Ludwig Van

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“Must it be? It must be.
[Muss es sein? Es muss sein.]”
—Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770–1827)

“The totality of our so-called knowledge or beliefs, from the most casual matters of geography and history to the profoundest laws of atomic physics or even of pure mathematics and logic, is a man-made fabric which impinges on experience only along the edges. Or, to change the figure, total science is like a field of force whose boundary conditions are experience.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)