Famous quotes containing the words melting and/or points:
“He hath a tear for pity, and a hand
Open as day for melting charity.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“The three main medieval points of view regarding universals are designated by historians as realism, conceptualism, and nominalism. Essentially these same three doctrines reappear in twentieth-century surveys of the philosophy of mathematics under the new names logicism, intuitionism, and formalism.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)