Andre-Marie Ampere Quotes
There is synthesis when, in combining therein judgments that are made known to us from simpler relations, one deduces judgments from them relative to more complicated relations. There is analysis when from a complicated truth one deduces more simple truths.
Quotes to Explore
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The main concern of the study is with the outline of a theoretical system. Its minor variations from writer to writer are not a matter of concern to this analysis.
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The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.
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The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.
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It's a little strange to become a kind of symbol of a whole type of analysis.
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In therapy you sit down; in analysis you lie down.
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Maybe all people with minds like Isaac's were the same. She knew he would make a much larger contribution than she ever would - he cared only about things much bigger than his own life. Ideas, truths, the reasons things were. As if he himself, his own existence, was somehow incidental.
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[About the great synthesis of atomic physics in the 1920s:] It was a heroic time. It was not the doing of any one man; it involved the collaboration of scores of scientists from many different lands. But from the first to last the deeply creative, subtle and critical spirit of Niels Bohr guided, restrained, deepened and finally transmuted the enterprise.
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Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people.
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Tangible language, which often tells more falsehoods than truths.
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There is always need of persons not only to discover new truths, and point out when what were once truths are true no longer, but also to commence new practices, and set the example of more enlightened conduct, and better taste and sense in human life.
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The great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions.
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What we call truths are just those errors that we cannot give up.
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All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful.
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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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They seemed to forget that the increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment and growth of the arts; not their dimination or destruction.
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It all rolls up and I think in the final analysis somewhere it's going to hit the consumer.
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Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable.
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Analysis and synthesis are both as necessary to the thinking spirit as inspiration and expiration to the organism.
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Grigsby's marvelous exploration-a deep, wide, and beautiful inquiry into Sojourner Truth's use of technology-features more of her photographs than have ever been collected before. Among its many insights, I especially relished the analysis of Truth's illiteracy. Enduring Truths is art history with a wide-ranging concept of history left in. A terrific book, and one we've needed for a long time.
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Not just beautiful, though — the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they’re watching me. What I’ve up till now, what I’m going to do — they know it all. Nothing gets past their watchful eyes. As I sit there under the shining night sky, again a violent fear takes hold of me. My heart’s pounding a mile a minute, and I can barely breathe. All these millions of stars looking down on me, and I’ve never given them more than a passing thought before. Not just the stars — how many other things haven’t I noticed in the world, things I know nothing about?
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Time narrows or expands according to how we approach it. It varies with a man’s breadth, with his heart.
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For myself I don't like the geisha look. It's like a mask.
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What stands out to me most about Maya Angelou is not what she has done or written or spoken; it's how she lived her life. She moved through the world with unshakable calm, confidence and a fierce grace.
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There is synthesis when, in combining therein judgments that are made known to us from simpler relations, one deduces judgments from them relative to more complicated relations. There is analysis when from a complicated truth one deduces more simple truths.
