Niall Roe

Philosopher of Science. Lawyer.
@CambridgeHPS

[Niall Roe @NiallRRoe]

We should write "Ceci n'est pas une pipe." on more paintings.

[Niall Roe @NiallRRoe]

If you got paid for every step you took, how much would you have to be paid per step to make it your job?

[octopus/caveman @octopuscaveman]

The smartphone really revolutionized the waiting room. Oh I get 20 minutes to look at my phone? Don’t mind if I do. The only problem is sometimes when I’m looking at my phone at home my home starts to feel like a waiting room and I realize it is and I’m just waiting to die

[r @rushdalchawal]

defeating imposter syndrome by actually being dumb incompetent and lazy

[trash jones @jzux]

phones should have a “please disturb” setting that sends an alert to all my friends that I want attention

[Niall Roe @NiallRRoe]

@Artofthesol Sometimes they are part of the view too!

[Kelsey Piper @KelseyTuoc]

Toddler has learned that when the doorbell rings we often open the door and say "come in! we were just [whatever we were doing]" but she's very literalminded so she opens the door and says "come in! we were just opening the door."

[Alice Mills @millsalice144]

Albert Einstein might not have been taken seriously if he had been called the English translation of his name- Mr. Onebeermug.

[Anthony Etherin @Anthony_Etherin]

WORD FACT

Words derived from Latin “salire” (to leap):

Salient — Leaping out.

Resilient — leaping back (re- + salire) → figuratively, bouncing back from difficulties.

Result — from Latin resultare, from resalire, “to spring, rebound” → to occur as a consequence.

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[Niall Roe @NiallRRoe]

A normal writer:

"I..."

Peirce, for some whimsical reason:

"A person in whom I take a certain interest, - he happens to be seated at my table, at this instant using my ink, my paper, and my only pen,..."

[Brooks Otterlake @i_zzzzzz]

In the pyrite community we refer to gold as "fool's pyrite"

[Niall Roe @NiallRRoe]

It’s always kinda funny when a store has a section called “Gifts”.

[saeqlyx @swooqp]

it’s called ID because “I” is short for I and “D” is short for dentification

[C. S. Peirce @CSPeirceSpeaks]

We never can be absolutely sure of anything, nor can we with any probability ascertain the exact value of any measure.

[C. S. Peirce @CSPeirceSpeaks]

Thus, the necessary reasoning of mathematics is performed by means of observation and experiment, and its necessary character is due simply to the circumstance that the subject of this observation and experiment is a diagram of our own creation, the conditions of whose being
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[Elliot Glazer @ElliotGlazer]

It’s that time of the year again. Please provide your current viewpoint regarding how many real numbers there are.

[C. S. Peirce @CSPeirceSpeaks]

One may well be struck with pity for the masses of population concentrated in New York and living under such unnatural conditions that they are forced to think mathematically.

[seiya @systole_]

I want to live near the sea and I want to live near the forest and I want to live near the mountains and I want to live near a café and I want to live near a library and I want to live near a park and I want to live near a museum and I want to live

[octopus/caveman @octopuscaveman]

Robert the Bruce is the funniest name in history. It’s like hi I’m Bob the Frank and this is my friend Phil the Ted.