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G. Spencer-Brown
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“We take as given the idea of distinction and the idea of indication, and that we cannot make an indication without drawing a distinction. We take, therefore, the form of distinction for the form.”
G. Spencer-Brown (1923–2016) first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 1, cited in Niklas Luhmann, Risk: A Sociological Theory, Walter de Gruyter, 1993 p. 223.
“Let us consider, for a moment, the world as described by the physicist. It consists of a number of fundamental particles which, if shot through their own space, appear as waves, and are thus... of the same laminated structure as pearls or onions, and other wave forms called electromagnetic which it is convenient, by Occam’s razor, to consider as travelling through space with a standard velocity. All these appear bound by certain natural laws which indicate the form of their relationship.”
G. Spencer-Brown (1923–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To teach pride in knowledge is to put up an effective barrier against any advance upon what is already known, since it makes one ashamed to look beyond the bounds imposed by one's own ignorance.”
G. Spencer-Brown (1923–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source