Thought for the Day

[muscadine]

Quote stolen from Steven Jay Gould's The Mismeasure of Man:

The tendency has always been strong to believe that whatever received a name must be an entity or being, having an independent existence of its own. And if no real entity answering to the name could be found, men did not for that reason suppose that none existed, but imagined that it was something peculiarly abstruse and mysterious. -John Stuart Mill

Comments

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

I have that book. It's excellent, and so is the quote.

[legolastn.livejournal.com]

I knew if anyone would like it, you would.