Ifs Quote by Augustus De Morgan

Possibly it had occurred to him the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever. [...] It had seemed as close as a…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

It is a pleasant surprise to him (the pure mathematician) and an added problem if he finds that the arts can use his calculations,…

— George Santayana

“Always preoccupied with his profound researches, the great Newton showed in the ordinary-affairs of life an absence of mind which has become proverbial. It…

— Camille Flammarion

“When God, the great mathematician, discovered that in making man he had overdone things a bit, he created the bedbug to even things out.…

— Ruskin Bond

He was walking into Faerie, in search of a fallen star, with no idea how he would find the star, nor how to keep…

— Neil Gaiman

“He watched them from a distance, as if he still sat in the window of his bedchamber, looking down on the yard below, seeing…

— George R.R. Martin

A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled, the houses that are built. The strong man sees the possible houses…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he…

— Sinclair Lewis

“He calculated the number of bricks in the wall, first in twos and then in tens and finally in sixteens. The numbers formed up…

— Terry Pratchett

“In the past he had been unable to see the great, teh unfathomable, the infinite, in anything. He had only felt that it must…

— Leo Tolstoy

If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was most likely to…

— Nikola Tesla

At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him…

— Alfred Noyes