WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Wed, 28 Oct 2026 05:57:18 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg deadlock – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Byron, George Gordon, Lord -- Don Juan, Canto 8, st. 77 (1823) https://wist.info/byron/24427/ https://wist.info/byron/24427/#respond Fri, 14 Mar 2014 12:11:52 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=24427 ‘Twas blow for blow, disputing inch by inch,
For one would not retreat, nor t’other flinch.


George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788–1824) English poet
Don Juan, Canto 8, st. 77 (1823) ]]> https://wist.info/byron/24427/feed/ 0 24427 Feynman, Richard -- The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume I, 8-2 “Motion” (20 Oct 1961) https://wist.info/feynman-richard/5716/ https://wist.info/feynman-richard/5716/#respond Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:22:51 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/wp/?p=5716 We cannot define anything precisely! If we attempt to, we get into that paralysis of thought that comes to philosophers who sit opposite each other, one saying to the other, “You don’t know what you are talking about!”. The second one says, “What do you mean by know? What do you mean by talking? What do you mean by you?” and so on.


Richard Feynman (1918–1988) American physicist
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