Illustrations Quotes

58 quotes by 55 authors

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
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
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 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
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
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
The very best [infographics] engender and facilitate an insight by visual means â€” allow us to grasp some relationship quickly and easily that otherwise would… — David Byrne
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
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
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
No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them! — Norman Rockwell
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
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
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
We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations. — Joseph Howe
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
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
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
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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