Spock/reception

Famous quotes containing the words spock and/or reception:

    There are only two things a child will share willingly—communicable diseases and his mother’s age.
    —Benjamin Spock (b. 1903)

    But in the reception of metaphysical formula, all depends, as regards their actual and ulterior result, on the pre-existent qualities of that soil of human nature into which they fall—the company they find already present there, on their admission into the house of thought.
    Walter Pater (1839–1894)