Putnam Fellow

Famous quotes containing the words putnam and/or fellow:

    Cut the pie any way you like, “meanings” just ain’t in the head!
    —Hilary Putnam (b. 1926)

    As for your high towers and monuments, there was a crazy fellow once in this town who undertook to dig through to China, and he got so far that, as he said, he heard the Chinese pots and kettles rattle; but I think that I shall not go out of my way to admire the hole which he made.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)