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Quote by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.”

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman was an American novelist, social reformer, and feminist. Her works explored the status of women in society, family, and career, and had a profound impact on women's literature and social movements. more

“Since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear ... there is absolutely no doubt that every affect in the universe can be explained satisfactorily from final causes, by the aid of the method of maxima and minima, as it can be from the effective causes themselves ... Of course, when the effective causes are too obscure, but the final causes are readily ascertained, the problem is commonly solved by the indirect method.”

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Author:Leonhard Euler

“A function of a variable quantity is an analytic expression composed in any way whatsoever of the variable quantity and numbers or constant quantities.”

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Book:Introduction to Analysis of the Infinite

Source: Introduction to Analysis of the Infinite

“The artist is a spectator, indifferent or impassioned, at the birth of his work, and observes the phases of its development.”

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Author:Max Ernst

“Collage is a supersensitive and scrupulously accurate instrument, similar to a seismograph, which is able to record the exact amount of the possibility of human happiness at any period.”

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Author:Max Ernst

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