Famous quotes containing the words meanings, strict and/or formula:
“Well, slithy means lithe and slimy. Lithe is the same as active. You see, its like a portmanteauthere are two meanings packed up into one word.”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (18321898)
“Science asks no questions about the ontological pedigree or a priori character of a theory, but is content to judge it by its performance; and it is thus that a knowledge of nature, having all the certainty which the senses are competent to inspire, has been attaineda knowledge which maintains a strict neutrality toward all philosophical systems and concerns itself not with the genesis or a priori grounds of ideas.”
—Chauncey Wright (18301875)
“For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.”
—Thomas Mann (18751955)