David Malet Armstrong quotes

“Mathematics is concerned with "all possible worlds."”
-- David Malet Armstrong

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“The concept of a mental state is primarily the concept of a state of the person apt for bringing about a certain sort of behaviour.”
-- David Malet Armstrong

Source : David Malet Armstrong (1984). “D.M. Armstrong”, D Reidel Publishing Company

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“To accept Naturalism is to reject such entities as Cartesian minds, private visual and tactual spaces, angelic beings and God.”
-- David Malet Armstrong

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“Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.”

“I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.”

“Mathematics is not yet capable of coping with the naïveté of the mathematician himself.”

“We know that nature is described by the best of all possible mathematics because God created it. So there is a chance that the best of all possible mathematics will be created out of physicists' attempts to describe nature.”

“The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.”

Source : "Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat". The NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. November 1, 2000.

“I'd like to take some calculus, too. I have absolutely no ability in that direction and not much interest, either, but there's something going on in mathematics that I don't understand, and I'd like to find out what it is.”

“Don't be concerned with what you can't do. Work on what you can do - then count your blessings.”

“One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer”

“The more guitars we have onstage the better, as I'm concerned.”

“What I am really concerned about is what art is supposed to be - and can become.”

Source : Bruce Nauman, Janet Kraynak (2005). “Please Pay Attention Please: Bruce Nauman's Words : Writings and Interviews”, p.180, MIT Press