
Prologue, p. 5
Adventures of a Mathematician - Third Edition (1991)
Source: 1984
Prologue, p. 5
Adventures of a Mathematician - Third Edition (1991)
Generation of Greatness (1957)
Context: In thinking about what the human animal might have gone through in the evolutionary process, have you wondered how some of the small changes which must have occurred could have had survival value? Haven't you wondered how they could have survived, when, in all of our experimental work every small change we make dies? … How many changes must have occurred in the human eye, occurred and died, before one change came along — an apparently trivial change … that gave the whole animal a significant increase in its power to perceive and hunt down its enemies and find its food. This is the kind of change that survives.
“And to us, we're more married than any piece of paper or big party could make us.”
Source: Catching Fire
“I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.”
Source: The Money Game (1968), Chapter 7, Identity And Anxiety, p. 81
It happened like this: the grown-up had drawn pictures for the child several times and said "this is a man," "this is a house," etc. And then the child makes some marks too and asks: what's this then? p. 17e
Ref: en.wikiquote.org - Ludwig Wittgenstein / Quotes / Culture and Value (1980)
1930s-1951, Philosophical Occasions 1912-1951 (1993)
Source: Philosophical Occasions: 1912-1951