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# Strangeness

Strange or strangeness are terms for the quality of being odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary, not normal, unfamiliar, or not yet part of one's experience. They are derived from Old French estrange, and Latin extraneous, "that which is on the outside."

## Quotes

* There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
** Francis Bacon, in "Of Beauty" in Essays (1625).
* The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it's stranger than we can imagine.
** Arthur C. Clarke paraphrasing J.B.S. Haldane
* The weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness.
** Laplace, Théorie analytique des probabilités, (1812)
* The Joker: What doesn't kill you makes you stranger.
** Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight, (2008)
* It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
** Walter Pater in Appreciation, Postscript (1889).
* But Lord! to see the absurd nature of Englishmen, that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everything that looks strange.
** Samuel Pepys, Diary (27 November 1662).
* I happen to find ways that are different from the usual techniques, which seems a little strange at the moment, but I don’t think there’s anything very different about it. I paint on the floor and this isn’t unusual – the Orientals did that.
** Jackson Pollock interviewed by William Wright, Summer 1950; as quoted in Abstract Expressionism : Creators and Critics (1990) edited by Clifford Ross, p. 142.
* Each age finds its own technique … I mean, the strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.
** Jackson Pollock, as quoted in Jackson Pollock (1967) by Francis V. O'Connor, p. 79.
* By accident most strange, bountiful Fortune — Now my dear lady — hath mine enemies Brought to this shore; and by my prescience I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star, whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop.
** William Shakespeare, in The Tempest (c. 1604), Prospero, in Act I, scene ii.
* Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes; Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange.
** William Shakespeare, in The Tempest (c. 1604), Ariel, in Act I, scene ii.
* There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.
** Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971).
# Tim White

Tim White (Born April 5, 1991) is an American singer, songwriter, DJ and record producer from New Brunswick, NJ

## Sourced

* "if I did my job right, it should be something everyone can connect with"
** Tim White said about California

## Song Quotations

* "Maybe im complicated
Maybe it's you Maybe we just need A different point to view"
** "California"

## See also

* Tim White
* Music
* List of people by name

## References

* ↑ http://www.myamn.com.au/index.php/international/item/1594-tim-white

## External links

* Official Tim White Website
# Timbaland

Timothy Z. Mosley, better known as Timbaland (born March 10, 1972), is an American musical composer and R&B record producer and rapper whose style influenced both genres even helping to blur the distinction between R&B and hip-hop, as well as pop and dance music.

## Sourced

* It's from a video game, idiot! (or possibly "It's from a video game idiot!")
** Elliot in the Morning, 2007-02-02
* It makes me laugh. The part I don't understand, the dude is trying to act like I went to his house and took it from his computer. I don't know him from a can of paint. I'm 15 years deep. That's how you attack a king? You attack moi? Come on, man. You got to come correct. You the laughing stock. People are like, "You can't be serious."
** Elliot in the Morning, about plagiarism controversy , 2007-02-02
* Sample and stole is two different things. Stole is like I walked in your house, watched you make it, stole your Pro Tools ... Sample is like you heard it somewhere, and you just sampled. Maybe you didn't know who it was by because it don't have the credits listed.

## External links

* ↑ Rodriguez, Jayson (2007-02-09). Timbaland Still In Shock Over Jay-Z, Madonna, Elton Collaborations. Mtv.com. Retrieved on 2010-02-28.
* ↑ Bosso 2009-06-17T21:40:00.167ZGuitars, Joe. Timbaland, Nelly Furtado sued for plagiarism (in EN-GB). MusicRadar.
* ↑ Mosley, Timothy Zachary. Interview. "Interview with Timbaland." 2007-02-02.
# Universals

In metaphysics, a universal is what particular things have in common, namely characteristics or qualities.

## Quotes

* In one sense 'there are' both universals and material objects, in another sense there is no such thing as either: statements about each can usually be analysed, but not always, nor always without remainder.
** J. L. Austin Philosophical Papers (1979), p. 43.
* Particulars are frequently fallible, but universals never. Occult philosophy lays bare Nature in her complete nakedness, and alone contemplates the wisdom of universals by the eyes of intelligence. Accustomed to partake of the rivers which flow from the Fountain of Life, it is unacquainted with grossness and with clouded waters.
** Robert Fludd, cited in: Arthur Edward Waite (1887). The Real History of the Rosicrucians Founded on Their Own Manifestoes. p. 290
** Waite commented: Like others of his school, Fludd insists on the uncertainty of a posteriori and experimental methods, to which he unhesitatingly attributes all the errors of the natural sciences..."
* A child learning his [her] mother tongue is learning how to name; he [she] is building up a meaning potential in respect of a limited number of social functions. These functions [instrumental, regulatory, interactional, personal, heuristic, and imaginative] constitute the semiotic environment of a very small child, and may be thought of as universals of human culture
** Michael Halliday (1978, p. 121) as cited in: Harry Daniels, Michael Cole, James V. Wertsch (2007) The Cambridge Companion to Vygotsky. p. 148.
* Plato held that the deceptions of sense justified scepticism of all sense-knowledge... Aristotle, more correctly, taught that error did not arise from the senses being false media, but from the wrong interpretations we put on their testimony. Manifold deceptions may thence arise; but each sense speaks truly so far as it speaks at all. It is from sense we gain the knowledge of particulars. It is from Induction we gain the knowledge of universals. Agreeing with Plato that Science is only concerned with universals, he affirmed that these could only be reached through Experience. This is the corner stone of the experience-philosophy or "Empiricism," so often urged as a reproach against Aristotle.
** George Henry Lewes (1864) Aristotle: a Chapter from the History of Science.
Footnote) De Anima, III., 3; Metaph. IV., 5; and elsewhere.
* Plato's discovery went as follows.
    It is possible for something to be a certain way and for something else to be the same way.
    So
    There are universals.
    (Tumultuous applause, which lasts, despite occasional subsidences, 2,400 years.)[…]
    'Universals' is simply the name philosophers give to the ways in which two or more things can be the same.
   * David Stove (1995). Darwinian Fairytales: Selfish Genes, Errors of Heredity, and Other Fables of Evolution, ISBN 185972 306 3

## See also

* Unitarian Universalism
# University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley (also referred to as UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, Cal Berkeley, and California) is a public research university located in Berkeley, California. Founded in 1868, Berkeley is the oldest of the ten research universities in the University of California system, and is often cited as the top public university in the United States and around the world.

## Quotes

    Sorted by surname
* And I eventually — when I went to Berkeley, which is where I got my masters in architecture, there I met other Chicanos that wanted to do sketch comedy, wanted to make music, wanted to write comedy. And we, of course, aggregated, and that’s when I realized, wow, this is what I was meant to be doing.
** Alcaraz, Lalo 2017 interview
* In the early 1960s there existed a successful quantum theory of the electromagnetic force (QED), which was completed in the late 1940s, but the theories of the weak and strong nuclear forces were not yet known. In UC Berkeley, where I was a graduate student during the period 1962 – 66, the emphasis was on developing a theory of the strong nuclear force. I felt that UC Berkeley was the center of the Universe for high energy theory at the time. Geoffrey Chew (my thesis advisor) and Stanley Mandelstam were highly influential leaders. Also, Steve Weinberg and Shelly Glashow were impressive younger faculty members. David Gross was a contemporaneous Chew student with whom I shared an office.
** Schwarz, J. H. (2007). The early years of string theory: a personal perspective.
# University of Illinois at Springfield

University of Illinois at Springfield is a public university in Springfield, Illinois, United States. The university was established in 1969 as Sangamon State University by the Illinois General Assembly and became a part of the University of Illinois system on July 1, 1995.

## Quotes

* Once Sangamon was gobbled up by the huge U of I headquartered 90 interstate miles away in Urbana, longstanding efforts to remove all traces of our alternative origins and goals escalated. Today, the campus buzzes with plans to make UIS a more mainstream, respectable institution. That's bad enough. Even worse is the effort to tie UIS's central public affairs identity almost exclusively to serving the state government's bureaucracy in Springfield, the state capitol, rather than to challenging the assumptions of an unjust society. Tellingly, the campus's new logo places the letters "UIS" directly under the state capitol dome, clarifying on every university document and T-shirt the conversion from university to state agency.
** Ron Sakolsky and Dennis Fox, "From 'Radical University' to Handmaiden of the Corporate State", Radical Teacher (1998), vol. 53
# University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge (abbreviated as Cantab in post-nominal letters; also known as Cambridge University) is a collegiate research university in Cambridge, United Kingdom. Founded in 1209 and granted a royal charter by Henry III in 1231, Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world and the world's fourth-oldest surviving university. The university grew out of an association of scholars who left the University of Oxford after a dispute with the townspeople. The two English ancient universities share many common features and are often jointly referred to as Oxbridge. Cambridge is ranked among the most prestigious universities in the world.

## Quotes

* Skidelsky tells us, Keynes was also practical, absorbed in questions of economic policy, argumentative, benevolent and intolerant, often rude, and had an intellectual arrogance that would allow positions previously held with great passion to be calmly abandoned. Well, that is exactly what the Cambridge faculty was like in the 1960s. Not only did the ghost of Keynes dominate the content of economics education at Cambridge, it also dominated the style. That style could be sustained with substance only by the extraordinarily gifted. So it is not surprising that the Cambridge faculty, although still very "Keynesian," looks much more conventional these days.
** John Eatwell, "Citizen Keynes", The American Prospect (1994)
# University of Bologna

The University of Bologna (Italian: Università di Bologna, UNIBO) is a research university in Bologna, Italy. Founded in 1088 by an organised guild of students (hence studiorum), it is the oldest university in continuous operation in the world, and the first university in the sense of a higher-learning and degree-awarding institute, as the word universitas was coined at its foundation. It is commonly ranked in the first places of national, European and international rankings both as a whole and for individual subjects. Since its foundation, it has attracted numerous scholars, intellectuals and students from all over Italy and the world, establishing itself as one of the main international centers of learning.

## Quotes

* I didn't like university life much at Bologna. The subjects I studied - economics and business administration - didn't interest me. I wanted to make films. I was glad when I was graduated. Yet it's odd; on graduation day, I was overcome with a terrible sadness. I realized that my youth was over and now the struggle had begun.
** Michelangelo Antonioni, Michelangelo Antonioni: Interviews (Conversations With Filmmakers Series), p. 61
# Willi Heinrich

Willi Heinrich (9 August 1920 – 2005) was a German author and soldier. During the Second World War he fought in the 101st Jäger Division, which suffered massive losses on the Eastern Front, and his combat experiences inspired his first successful novel, Das geduldige Fleisch (1955), published in English translation as The Willing Flesh in the United Kingdom and as The Cross of Iron in the United States (1956), and adapted for the screen as Cross of Iron (1977). He later wrote a series of popular genre novels and potboilers in the 1970s and 1980s.

## Quotes

* To my mind there is nothing more contemptible than snatching the laurels that properly belong to a man who fell on the field of battle.
** The Willing Flesh, as translated by Richard and Clara Winston (1956), V, Steiner
* We have a bunch of women there who are really something. Especially two of them. There’s one of them wears her breasts like I would wear the Iron Cross.
** The Willing Flesh, as translated by Richard and Clara Winston (1956), VII, Boy
* If there is a God, He’s a sadist. That’s my firm conviction.
** The Willing Flesh, as translated by Richard and Clara Winston (1956), XII, Brandt
# William-Adolphe Bouguereau

William-Adolphe Bouguereau (November 30, 1825 – August 19, 1905) was a French painter.

## Quotes

* One has to seek Beauty and Truth, Sir! As I always say to my pupils, you have to work to the finish. There's only one kind of painting. It is the painting that presents the eye with perfection, the kind of beautiful and impeccable enamel you find in Veronese and Titian.
** Bouguereau (1895); Attributed in: Jefferson C. Harrison (1986) French paintings from the Chrysler Museum. Chrysler Museum, North Carolina Museum of Art, Birmingham Museum of Art (Birmingham, Ala.). p.45.
* For me a work of art must be an elevated interpretation of nature. The search for the ideal has been the purpose of my life. In landscape or seascape, I love above all the poetic motif.
** Attributed to Bouguereau in: Sotheby's (Firm). (1994) 19th Century European Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture. p. 123; Cited in: Adolphe William Bouguereau Quotes by Armand Cabrera, Oct. 4, 2010.

## About Bouguereau

* William Bouguereau is unquestionably one of history's greatest artistic geniuses. Yet in the past century, his reputation and unparalleled accomplishments have undergone a libelous, dishonest, relentless and systematic assault of immense proportions. His name was stricken from most history texts and when included it was only to blindly, degrade and disparage him and his work. Yet, as we shall see, it was he who single handedly opened the French academies to women, and it was he who was arguably the greatest painter of the human figure in all of art history. His figures come to life like no previous artist has ever before or ever since achieved. He wasn't just the best ever at painting human anatomy, more importantly he captured the tender and subtlest nuances of personality and mood. Bouguereau caught the very souls and spirits of his subjects much like Rembrandt. Rembrandt is said to have captured the soul of age. Bouguereau captured the soul of youth.
** William Bouguereau (1825-1905) by Damien Bartol on artrenewal.org, 2013.
# Sylvia Fine

Sylvia Fine (1913, Brooklyn, New York – October 28, 1991, New York City) was an American lyricist and wife of the comedian Danny Kaye.

## Quotes
### Song Anatole of Paris

* Pa was forced to be a hobo Because he played the oboe And the oboe it is clearly understood Is an ill wind that nobody blows good
* And why do I sew each new chapeau With a style they most look positively grim in? Strictly between us, entre-nous I hate women.

## See also

* Danny Kaye
# Sylvia Mendez

Sylvia Mendez (born June 7, 1936) is an American civil rights activist of Mexican and Puerto Rican heritage. At age eight, she played an instrumental role in the Mendez v. Westminster case, the landmark desegregation case of 1946. The case successfully ended de jure segregation in California and paved the way for integration and the American civil rights movement.

## Quotes

* We weren’t being taught to be smart. We were being taught how to be maids and how to crochet and how to quilt
** in article (2017)
* What I tell my students is that they must persevere, and my mother always told me we are children of god and we deserve to be treated equally,” Mendez said during her speech. “Yes, we still have racism and prejudice, but we must persevere.
** in article (2017)

### Interview with Teen Vogue (2018)

* I was seeing this beautiful [white] school, large concrete courtyard, a beautiful playground,” she says. “I thought, ‘I know what they’re fighting for. They’re fighting so I can go to that beautiful school and have a playground.’
* We are more segregated now than we were in 1945, with de facto segregation. As you well are aware, Mendez and Brown found that de jure, by law, we cannot be segregated. Now we have de facto segregation
* They’re not given the same curriculum [in segregated schools] that they get in a white school. I try and push forward to make sure that these schools that are segregated are getting the same critical thinking classes and AP classes so they can proceed to go on to a college and proceed to get their education.
* It’s so important that students know that this kind of bigotry has been here forever, and there is no reason why we cannot stand up against it. And there’s no reason why we should let things like this that we see in the media, things that are happening, deter us from continuing our plight to make sure that all our students get an equal education. Mendez v. Westminster was not just about education; it was for civil liberties, for social justice.
* If you stand up for social justice or something that is right, people will stand up and fight for you, and they will help you try to reach your goals
# Sylvia Nduka

Sylvia Nduka (born 14 October 1992) is a Nigerian former beauty pageant winner and entrepreneur. She is from Isuofia in Anambra State, She is the youngest of five siblings,She studied accounting at the University of Lagos.

## Quotes

* The courage to think and act differently does not come overnight; it takes time.
** Sylvia Nduka's Quotes
* My goal is to make the world a more beautiful place for women and young girls. You're either part of this or you are part of it.
** Sylvia Nduka's Quotes
# Sylvia Wynter

Sylvia Wynter, O.J. (born 11 May 1928) is a Jamaican novelist, dramatist, critic, philosopher, and essayist.

## Quotes

* Public officials of the judicial system of Los Angeles routinely use the acronym ‘N.H.I.’ to refer to any case that involved a breach of the rights of young Black males who belonged to the jobless category of the inner city ghettos. N.H.I. means ‘no humans involved.’
** “‘No Humans Involved’: An Open Letter to My Colleagues.” Knowledge on Trial 1 (1994)
# Sylvia Mulinge

Sylvia Wairimu Mulinge (née Sylvia Wairimu), is a Kenyan businesswoman and corporate executive. Since 1 October 2022, she serves as the chief executive officer of MTN Uganda.

## Quotes

* During the first half of 2023, we delivered a resilient performance in uncertain evolving and global macroeconomic conditions.
** Sylvia Mulinge said (The East African, August 13 2023)
# Sylvia Serfaty

Sylvia Serfaty (born 1975) is a French mathematician working in the United States.

## Quotes
### In Mathematics, ‘You Cannot Be Lied To’ (February 21, 2017)

In Mathematics, ‘You Cannot Be Lied To’ (February 21, 2017)
* It’s the same kind of pleasure as with hiking: You hike uphill and it’s tough and you sweat, and at the end of the day the reward is the beautiful view. Solving a math problem is a bit like that, but you don’t always know where the path is and how far you are from the top. You have to be able to accept frustration, failure, your own limitations.
* ...If you have enough ability, then you cultivate it and build on it, just as a musician plays scales and practices to get to a top level.
* One of the first pieces of advice I got as I was starting my Ph.D. was from Tristan Rivière (a previous student of my adviser, Fabrice Béthuel), who told me: People think that research in math is about these big ideas, but no, you really have to start from simple, stupid computations — start again like a student and redo everything yourself. I found that this is so true. A lot of good research actually starts from very simple things, elementary facts, basic bricks, from which you can build a big cathedral. Progress in math comes from understanding the model case, the simplest instance in which you encounter the problem. And often it is an easy computation; it’s just that no one had thought of looking at it this way.
* I tell myself that there are always very bright people who have thought about these problems and made very beautiful and elaborate theories, and certainly I cannot always compete on that end. But let me try to rethink the problem almost from scratch with my own little basic understanding and knowledge and see where I go. Of course, I have built enough experience and intuition that I sort of pretend to be naive. In the end, I think a lot of mathematicians proceed this way, but maybe they don’t want to admit it, because they don’t want to appear simple-minded. There is a lot of ego in this profession, let’s be honest.