Illustrations Quotes
58 quotes by 55 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The very best [infographics] engender and facilitate an insight by visual means — allow us to grasp some relationship quickly and easily that otherwise would…
— David Byrne
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The Bible differs from all other books in that it never wears out. Other books are read and laid aside, but the Bible is a…
— William Jennings Bryan
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Portraits of the Mind is a remarkable book that combines beautifully reproduced illustrations of the nervous system as it has been visualized over the centuries,…
— Dale Purves
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British diplomats, constantly exposed to American political-ethical rhetoric, find their professional skills tested to the limits by the need to keep a straight face. For…
— Conor Cruise O'Brien
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No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!
— Norman Rockwell
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Modern man receives a large part of his knowledge and general education by way of pictorial impressions, illustrations, photographs, films. Daily newspapers bring more pictures…
— Otto Neurath
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Nobody brings ancient history and archaeology to life like Adrienne Mayor. From the Russian steppes to China, and from Roman Egypt and Arabia to the…
— Edith Hall
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The only thing better than a superb collection of spinechilling stories, is a superb collection of spinechilling stories accompanied by equally unsettling illustrations, and in…
— Kealan Patrick Burke
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We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations.
— Joseph Howe
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Our allegiance is to the principles always, and not to the persons. Persons are but the embodiments, the illustrations of the principles. If the principles…
— Swami Vivekananda
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The decay of old aristocratic prejudices against greedy speculation, the undermining of orthodox Christian faith (which forbids avarice)... the debauching of agriculture to a gross…
— Russell Kirk
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In the contexts of religion and politics, words are not regarded as standing, rather inadequately, for things and events; on the contrary things and events…
— Aldous Huxley
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First of all, the art of living; then as my ideal profession, poetry and philosophy, and as my real profession, plastic arts; in the last…
— Paul Klee
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