Famous quotes containing the words van and/or hest:
“To call a posit a posit is not to patronize it. A posit can be unavoidable except at the cost of other no less artificial expedients. Everything to which we concede existence is a posit from the standpoint of a description of the theory-building process, and simultaneously real from the standpoint of the theory that is being built.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)
“Ferdinand. I do beseech you—
Chiefly that I may set it in my prayers—
What is your name?
Miranda. Miranda.—O my father,
I have broke your hest to say so.
Ferdinand. Admired Miranda,
Indeed the top of admiration! worth
What’s dearest to the world!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)