05:24 am - QotD
"Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of
things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first
and names afterwards." --
Galileo
Galilei (b. 1564-02-15, d. 1642-01-08)
(I wish I'd thought to schedule this quotation for
before last night's
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<p><i>"Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of
things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first
and names afterwards."</i> --
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei">Galileo
Galilei</a> <small>(b. 1564-02-15, d. 1642-01-08)</small></p>
<p>(I wish I'd thought to schedule this quotation for
<em>before</em> last night's
<a href="<a href="http://sfy.co/ieDV">#qfaith chat on labels</a>.
(Link goes to a Storify archive of the conversation in forward
chronological order. If you'd rather read in Twitter's native
order -- mostly reverse-chronological but with the option of
clicking on a tweet to see some of the replies and antecedents
in forward order, just
<a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23qfaith&src=typd&f=realtime">
search Twitter for the #qfaith hashtag</a>, but do it soon, before
much else gets posted with that hashtag.))</p>