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WT Sharpe · 10-07-2010, 08:37 AM

....To Leibniz his nose was a congregation of spiritual beings
....To a modern physicist his nose is a wild dance of electrons
....To Bishop Berkeley his own nose only existed from time to time
.......when he blew it.
..........— Sir Desmond MacCarthy (1877–1952), English literary critic. Quoted in Helen Buss Mitchell, Roots of Wisdom: Speaking the Language of Philosophy (Wadsworth 1996), p. 237.

10-07-2010, 08:37 AM	#737
WT Sharpe Bah, humbug! Posts: 39,072 Karma: 157049943 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Chesapeake, VA, USA Device: Kindle Oasis, iPad Pro, & a Samsung Galaxy S9.	....To Leibniz his nose was a congregation of spiritual beings ....To a modern physicist his nose is a wild dance of electrons ....To Bishop Berkeley his own nose only existed from time to time .......when he blew it. ..........— Sir Desmond MacCarthy (1877–1952), English literary critic. Quoted in Helen Buss Mitchell, *Roots of Wisdom: Speaking the Language of Philosophy* (Wadsworth 1996), p. 237.