Illustration Quotes

144 quotes by 133 authors

Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make. — Kate Adie
In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of… — Noam Chomsky
As I am writing, another illustration of ye generation of hills proposed above comes into my mind. Milk is as uniform a liquor as ye… — Isaac Newton
I think chemistry is being frittered away by the hairsplitting of the organic chemists; we have new compounds discovered, which scarcely differ from the known… — Michael Faraday
The existing premises, wholly altered by geologic science, are no longer those of Hume. The foot-print in the sand-to refer to his happy illustration-does now… — Hugh Miller
[My Book] will endeavour to establish the principle[s] of reasoning in ... [geology]; and all my geology will come in as illustration of my views… — Charles Lyell
Science appears to us with a very different aspect after we have found out that it is not in lecture rooms only, and by means… — James Clerk Maxwell
Some persons have contended that mathematics ought to be taught by making the illustrations obvious to the senses. Nothing can be more absurd or injurious:… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In truth, ideas and principles are independent of men; the application of them and their illustration is man's duty and merit. The time will come… — Edward Forbes
In preparing the present volume, it has been the aim of the author to do full justice to the ample material at his command, and,… — Othniel Charles Marsh
We're all looking at the people around us, the people who have gone before us who have succeeded in recovery and have long-term sobriety and… — Scott Stevens
If you preachers would start winning souls everywhere you go, you wouldn't have to get a book of illustrations to preach from next Sunday. — Jack Hyles
You should know what makes one photo brilliant and another. Why one illustration is instructive and another is banal. Why one blurb is clever and… — Jason Calacanis
On Saturday morning, one of the two teams still unbeaten in the Premiership occupied a modest seventh place. It is an illustration of the relentless… — Pete Gill
The floating vapour is just as true an illustration of the law of gravity as the falling avalanche. — John Burroughs
It is false to speak of realisation. What is there to realise? The real is as it is always. We are not creating anything new… — Ramana Maharshi
All violence is the illustration of a pathetic stereotype, — Barbara Kruger
Cities and landscapes are illustrations of our spiritual and material worth. They not only express our values but give them a tangible reality. They determine… — Leon Krier
Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a right line was… — Edward Bellamy
Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing of the theory… — Edgar Allan Poe

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