(source) |
Frank Plumpton Ramsey
(22 Feb 1903 - 19 Jan 1930)
|
Science Quotes by Frank Plumpton Ramsey (4 quotes)
[I attach] little importance to physical size. I don’t feel the least humble before the vastness of the heavens. The stars may be large, but they cannot think or love; and these are qualities which impress me far more than size does.
— Frank Plumpton Ramsey
Logic issues in tautologies, mathematics in identities, philosophy in definitions; all trivial, but all part of the vital work of clarifying and organising our thought.
— Frank Plumpton Ramsey
My picture of the world is drawn in perspective and not like a model to scale. The foreground is occupied by human beings and the stars are all as small as three-penny bits. I don't really believe in astronomy, except as a complicated description of part of the course of human and possibly animal sensation. I apply my perspective not merely to space but also to time. In time the world will cool and everything will die; but that is a long time off still and its present value at compound discount is almost nothing.
— Frank Plumpton Ramsey
Science, history and politics are not suited for discussion except by experts. Others are simply in the position of requiring more information; and, till they have acquired all available information, cannot do anything but accept on authority the opinions of those better qualified.
— Frank Plumpton Ramsey
See also:
- 22 Feb - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Ramsey's birth.
- F.P. Ramsey: Philosophical Papers, by F.P. Ramsey and D.H. Mellor (ed.). - book suggestion.
- Booklist for Frank Plumpton Ramsey.