Quotes by : Willard Van Orman Quine

To be is to be the value of a variable.

Life is agid, life is fulgid. Life is what the least of us make most of us feel the least of us make....

It is within science itself, and not in some prior philosophy, that reality is to be identified and described.....

No two of us learn our language alike, nor, in a sense, does any finish learning it while he lives.

Beneath the uniformity that unites us in communication there is a chaotic personal diversity of connections,....

Believing is a disposition. We could tire ourselves out thinking, if we put our minds to it, but believing....

Language is a social art.

Physical objects are conceptually imported into the situation as convenient intermediaries not by definition....

Students of the heavens are separable into astronomers and astrologers as readily as are the minor domestic....

As an empiricist I continue to think of the conceptual scheme of science as a tool, ultimately, for predicting....

Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption.