Quote of the day
Taking the entire globe, if North America and Western Europe can be called the 'cities of the world', then Asia, Africa and Latin America constitute 'the rural areas of the world'.
Bas van Fraassen

Born: April 5, 1941 (age 85)
Bio: Bastiaan Cornelis van Fraassen is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University and the McCosh Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Princeton University, noted for his seminal contributions to philosophy of science.
Known for:
- The scientific image (1980)
- Scientific representation (2008)
- The Empirical Stance (2002)
- Laws and symmetry (1989)
- Quantum mechanics (1991)







