Quotes About Ryle

I was educated at Bradfield College and Oxford, where I graduated in 1939.

I was born on September 27, 1918, the second of five children.

Thought about the world is prior to thought about how to change the world. Accordingly, knowing-that is prior to knowing-how. Descartes was right and Ryle was wrong. Why, after all these years, does one still have to say these things?

Nor does this understanding require a prolonged grounding in the not yet established laws of psychology. Following the moves made by a chess-player is not doing anything remotely resembling problematic psychological diagnosis.

For this theory is just another unsuccessful attempt to wriggle out of a perfectly mythical dilemma.

It is a mystery not of the unsolved but soluble type, like the problem of the cause of cancer, but of quite another type.

In 1959 the University recognized our work by appointing me to a new Chair of Radio Astronomy.