Ohm (a distinguished mathematician, be it noted) brought into order a host of puzzling facts connecting electromotive force and electric current in… — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
When the modern movement began, starting perhaps with the paintings of Manet and the poetry of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, what distinguished the… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Surely with as good reason as had Archimedes to have the cylinder, cone and sphere engraved on his tombstone might our distinguished… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander. — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue. — E. V. Lucas Copy Share Image
The form of government, when it has been prudently established, produces citizens distinguished for bravery, justice, and every other good quality; whereas,… — Dionysius of Halicarnassus Copy Share Image
Of a thousand shavers, two do not shave so much alike as not to be distinguished. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is not the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered; but very often an action of… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The awful discretion, which a court of impeachments must necessarily have, to doom to honor or to infamy the most confidential and… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Reading was not an escape for her, any more than it is for me. It was an aspect of direct experience. She… — Jincy Willett Copy Share Image
The 'squaring of the circle' is one of the many archetypal motifs which form the basic patterns of our dreams and fantasies.… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
God's blessing is not always to be distinguished from His wrath. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I am interested to learn that a group of distinguished men and women is to be formed to spread knowledge and appreciation… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
People at the top are closing ranks so tightly that all possibility of subjective deviation has gone, and difference can be sought… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
The love of money as a possession-as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
At present, the novels which we owe to English ladies form no small part of the literary glory of our country. No… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Means are not to be distinguished from ends. If violent means are used, there will be bad results. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The religious geniuses of all ages have been distinguished by this kind of religious feeling, which knows no dogma and no God… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Protestants, from the first, have been distinguished from their opponents by what they do not believe; to throw over one more dogma… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Man is man because he is free to operate within a framework of his destiny. He is free to deliberate, to make… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I remember once visiting an outdoor exhibition of sculpture in Arnhem, the Netherlands. One of the artists had placed this notice at… — John Wijngaards Copy Share Image
In comparison with other men of their time, the Americans were distinguished by the possession of new political and social ideas, which… — Albert Bushnell Hart Copy Share Image
