Rapidity Quotes

57 quotes by 47 authors

Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity. — Charles Babbage
Rapidity is the essence of war: take advantage of the enemy's unreadiness, make your way by unexpected routes, and attack unguarded spots. — Sun Tzu
The year 1896 ... marked the beginning of what has been aptly termed the heroic age of Physical Science. Never before in the history of… — Ernest Rutherford
Tis evident that all reasonings concerning matter of fact are founded on the relation of cause and effect, and that we can never infer the… — David Hume
Edison was by far the most successful and, probably, the last exponent of the purely empirical method of investigation. Everything he achieved was the result… — Nikola Tesla
When two minds of a high order, interested in kindred subjects, come together, their conversation is chiefly remarkable for the summariness of its allusions and… — William James
In childhood our credulity serves us well. It helps us to pack, with extraordinary rapidity, our skulls full of the wisdom of our parents and… — Richard Dawkins
As someone who has shot in most disciplines, I can tell the House that when one is lying on ones stomach in Bisley with a… — Richard Page
If asked how to cope with a great host of the enemy in orderly array and on the point of marching to the attack, I… — Sun Tzu
The fact that all normal children acquire essentially comparable grammars of great complexity with remarkable rapidity suggests that human beings are somehow specially designed to… — Noam Chomsky
Rapidity does not always mean progress, and hurry is akin to waste. The old fable of the hare and the tortoise is just as good… — Charles Warren Stoddard
Never before and never since have I seen - and I cannot even imagine, such an amazing rapidity of chess thinking that Capablanca possessed in… — Alexander Alekhine
In all history, there is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare. Only one who knows the disastrous effects of a long… — Sun Tzu
With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America into a prison house of the spirit. The affluent… — Eric Sevareid
It occurred to me that if I could invent a machine - a gun - which could by its rapidity of fire, enable one man… — Richard Jordan
A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just… — Edward Bok
I worry that the level of interrupt, the sort of overwhelming rapidity of information â€” and especially of stressful information â€” is in fact affecting… — Eric Schmidt
The creative process is like music which takes root with extraordinary force and rapidity — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people who would shut up the human race upon this globe, we shall one day travel to… — Jules Verne
At first, then, exhibit the coyness of a maiden, until the enemy gives you an opening; afterwards emulate the rapidity of a running hare, and… — Sun Tzu

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