I made the same joke over on FriendFeed. Great minds, and all that...
Philosophy is the point where the far right end of the spectrum loops back to the far left.
My flatmate in university (who was a violinist, but her mother worked in the department of mathematics at U of T) had a T-shirt that said:
The biologist thinks he is a chemist.
The chemist thinks he is a physicist.
The physicist thinks he is God.
[And then in bigger letters:]
And God thinks she is a mathematician.
I made the same joke over on FriendFeed. Great minds, and all that...
Philosophy is the point where the far right end of the spectrum loops back to the far left.
My flatmate in university (who was a violinist, but her mother worked in the department of mathematics at U of T) had a T-shirt that said:
The biologist thinks he is a chemist.
The chemist thinks he is a physicist.
The physicist thinks he is God.
[And then in bigger letters:]
And God thinks she is a mathematician.
Mark Pilgrim went the whole way:
http://diveintomark.org/archives/2008/06/11/purity