Correspondence Quotes

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It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence. — Jacques Barzun
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
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
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
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
Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence. — Oscar Wilde
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I write every day when I'm at home - trying to catch up with correspondence. — Colin Dexter
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
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
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

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