Theories, for me, are just about freeing your mind. It doesn't mean the theory is going to work like a scientific theory works. It's about freeing your mind and making you think a different way.
One should not be too distracted by definitions. Ideas transcend definitions.
The essence of mathematics lies precisely in its freedom.
No object is stuck with its name so irrevocably that one cannot find another which suits it better.
In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc.
The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.
I'm fascinated by how you'll change your position so many times over a lifetime, but really what you're doing is occupying a series of positions on a landscape.
It's perfectly healthy-encouraged, even- to have an idea tomorrow that contradicted your idea today
Why should it not be the whole function of a word to denote many things?
