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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object. ↗

— Plotinus

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Quantum theory also tells us that the world is not simply objective; somehow it's something more subtle than that. In some sense it is veiled from us, but it has a structure that we can understand. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#more #objective #quantum #sense #simply

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#been #contains #left #like #object

I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects. ↗

— Martin Puryear

#distilled #i #interested #making #never

No sane person should believe that something is subjective merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy. ↗

— Hilary Putnam

#believe #beyond #cannot #controversy #merely

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit. ↗

— Pliny the Elder

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If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides. ↗

— Robert Quillen

#accurately #anything #attention #called #chiefly

I can't pretend to be objective when it comes to service or sacrifice. ↗

— Martha Raddatz

#i #objective #pretend #sacrifice #service

By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour; and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them. ↗

— David Ricardo

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I believe that the organisers of this conference have chosen a very timely subject for our discussion - because the 21st century will confront us with an entirely new set of challenges. ↗

— Lord Robertson

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