Rebecca Newberger Goldstein Quotes

There’s the claim that the only progress made is in posing problems that scientists can answer. That philosophy never has the means to answer problems—it’s just biding its time till the scientists arr...

That's one of the compensations for being mediocre. One doesn't have to worry about becoming mediocre.

And if the prodigious genius of Azarya Sheiner has never found the solution, then perhaps that is proof that no solution exists, that the most gifted among us is feeble in mind against the brutality o...