Robert L Van Antwerp

Famous quotes containing the words robert l, robert and/or van:

    Away down the river,
    A hundred miles or more,
    Other little children
    Shall bring my boats ashore.
    Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)

    Yeah, percentage players die broke too, don’t they, Bert?
    Sydney Carroll, U.S. screenwriter, and Robert Rossen. Eddie Felson (Paul Newman)

    The totality of our so-called knowledge or beliefs, from the most casual matters of geography and history to the profoundest laws of atomic physics or even of pure mathematics and logic, is a man-made fabric which impinges on experience only along the edges. Or, to change the figure, total science is like a field of force whose boundary conditions are experience.
    —Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)