Famous quotes containing the words van, dam and/or attempted:
“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)
“The devil take one party and his dam the other!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Many have attempted unnatural acts, but Nature has always shown the way.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)