Famous quotes containing the words james and/or van:
“She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)
“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)