Implication is thus the very texture of our web of belief, and logic is the theory that traces it. - Willard Van Orman Quine

Life is agid. Life is fulgid. Life is a burgeoning, a quickening of the dim primordial urge in the murky wastes of time. Life is what the least of us make most of us feel the least of us make the most of.

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

The word 'definition' has come to have a dangerously reassuring sound, owing no doubt to its frequent occurrence in logical and mathematical writings.