Correspondence Quotes
83 quotes by 81 authors
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It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.
— Jacques Barzun
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I have devoted my whole life to the study of Nature, and yet a single sentence may express all that I have done. I have…
— Louis Agassiz
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More than anything else, though, to anyone who would write about it, golf offers a four-hour drama in two acts, which becomes memorable even in…
— Alistair Cooke
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In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs... we…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of non pertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow,…
— Charles Lamb
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Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.
— Oscar Wilde
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What distinguishes the language of science from language as we ordinarily understand the word? ... What science strives for is an utmost acuteness and clarity…
— Albert Einstein
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The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow [sic] which can be done…
— Abraham Lincoln
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That henceforth the absurd game of chemical noughts and crosses be tabu within the Society's precincts and that, following the practice of the Press in…
— Henry Edward Armstrong
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I am ever more intrigued by the correspondence between mathematics and physical facts. The adaptability of mathematics to the description of physical phenomena is uncanny.
— Nicolaas Bloembergen
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It is interesting thus to follow the intellectual truths of analysis in the phenomena of nature. This correspondence, of which the system of the world…
— Pierre-Simon Laplace
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His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone as…
— Evelyn Waugh
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Beauty will result from the form and the correspondence of the whole, with respect to the several parts, of the parts with regard to each…
— Andrea Palladio
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I think the Internet, particularly the availability of information, is great. I do a lot of correspondence on-line and have a chat line to talk…
— Anne McCaffrey
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I had been a reader of THOR in college. I had read the Stan Lee and Jack Kirby stuff. I had loved it. I had…
— Walt Simonson
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There comes a moment in the day when you have written your pages in the morning, attended to your correspondence in the afternoon, and have…
— H.G. Wells
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I write every day when I'm at home - trying to catch up with correspondence.
— Colin Dexter
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Historians will consider this a dark age. Science historians can read Galileos technical correspondence from the 1590s but not Marvin Minskys from the 1960s.
— Stewart Brand
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To converse at the distance of the Indes by means of sympathetic contrivances may be as natural to future times as to us is a…
— Joseph Glanvill
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I have no distributor... it is indicative to me that there are these pockets of players and collectors all over. You should see the correspondence…
— Bill Dixon
Who Wrote These Correspondence Quotes
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