Form Quotes

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Reason has so many forms that we do not know which to choose-Experiment has no fewer. — Michel de Montaigne
Salt water when it turns into vapour becomes sweet, and the vapour does not form salt water when it condenses again. This I know by… — Aristotle
I am weary seeing our laboring classes so wretchedly housed, fed, and clothed, while thousands of dollars are wasted every year over unsightly statues. If… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Most of the crackpot papers which are submitted to The Physical Review are rejected, not because it is impossible to understand them, but because it… — Freeman Dyson
The real achievement in discoveries ... is seeing an analogy where no one saw one before. .. The essence of discovery is that unlikely marriage… — Arthur Koestler
In order to translate a sentence from English into French two things are necessary. First, we must understand thoroughly the English sentence. Second, we must… — George Polya
It seems perfectly clear that Economy, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science. There exists much prejudice against… — William Stanley Jevons
The proof given by Wright, that non-adaptive differentiation will occur in small populations owing to "drift," or the chance fixation of some new mutation or… — Julian Huxley
Now, the causes being four, it is the business of the student of nature to know about them all, and if he refers his problems… — Aristotle
The research worker, in his efforts to express the fundamental laws of Nature in mathematical form, should strive mainly for mathematical beauty. He should take… — Paul Dirac
Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great. — Edmund White
The angels may have wider spheres of action, may have nobler forms of duty; but right with them and with us is one and the… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
The objects of this primary education . . . would be . . . to form the statesmen, legislators and judges, on whom public prosperity… — Thomas Jefferson
The business of education has lay[ed] the foundations for nurseries of wise and good men, to adapt our modes of teaching to the peculiar form… — Benjamin Rush
Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation- an investigation… — Neil Simon
Just as one can compose colors, or forms, so one can compose motions. — Alexander Calder
The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the Universe, or part thereof. For that is a rather large model… — Alexander Calder
The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint. — Georgia O'Keeffe
The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or… — Gustave Courbet
Drawing and color are not separate at all; in so far as you paint, you draw. The more color harmonizes, the more exact the drawing… — Paul Cezanne

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