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“Despite our complicated civilization, so called, or perhaps on account of it, we are all of us a mere set of barbarians, who find it less trouble to provide a new, cheap, and shoddy thing than to get the full use and full pleasure out of a finely-made and carefully-chosen old one.”

Made Use Pleasure Trouble Civilization Accounts Mere Complicated Chosen Despite Barbarians Newness

Book:Hortus vitae : essays on the garden of life

Source: Hortus vitae : essays on the garden of life

“Maya Jasanoff's Liberty's Exiles places the loyalist experience and the aftermath of the American Revolution in an entirely new light. Alongside the Spirit of 1776, Jasanoff gives us the Spirit of 1783, dedicated to remaking the mighty British Empire, and then offers a stunning reinterpretation of the Loyalists' complicated role in that remaking. Her meticulously researched and superbly written account is historical revision at its finest, and it affirms her place as one of the very finest historians of the rising generation.”

“There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.”

One Thing Limits Accounts Complicated Pessimistic Complicated Things

Author:E. B. White

“Mathematics is an obscure field, an abstruse science, complicated and exact; yet so many have attained perfection in it that we might conclude almost anyone who seriously applied himself would achieve a measure of success.”

Might Success Science Achieve Fields Perfection Accounts Mathematics Complicated Obscure Measure Of Success

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Physical science enjoys the distinction of being the most fundamental of the experimental sciences, and its laws are obeyed universally, so far as is known, not merely by inanimate things, but also by living organisms, in their minutest parts, as single individuals, and also as whole communities. It results from this that, however complicated a series of phenomena may be and however many other sciences may enter into its complete presentation, the purely physical aspect, or the application of the known laws of matter and energy, can always be legitimately separated from the other aspects.”

“Whether statistics be an art or a science... or a scientific art, we concern ourselves little. It is the basis of social and political dynamics, and affords the only secure ground on which the truth or falsehood of the theories and hypotheses of that complicated science can be brought to the test.”

Littles Art Science Political Social Theory Concern Tests Accounts Bases Complicated Secure Statistics Falsehood Hypothesis Dynamics

Author:Adolphe Quetelet

“It was my science that drove me to the conclusion that the world is much more complicated than can be explained by science. It is only through the supernatural that I can understand the mystery of existence.”

World I Can Science Understanding Existence Mystery Accounts Complicated Conclusion Concluding Anthropic Principle

Author:Allan Sandage

“There was, I think, a feeling that the best science was that done in the simplest way. In experimental work, as in mathematics, there was "style" and a result obtained with simple equipment was more elegant than one obtained with complicated apparatus, just as a mathematical proof derived neatly was better than one involving laborious calculations. Rutherford's first disintegration experiment, and Chadwick's discovery of the neutron had a "style" that is different from that of experiments made with giant accelerators.”

“I suppose we acquire most of our feelings about our bodies too early, and in ways too complicated, to make them easy to account for.”

Way Feelings Body Easy Accounts Complicated Acquire Clothings

Book:Edward Weston: nudes : his photographs accompanied by excerpts from the daybooks & letters

Source: Edward Weston: nudes : his photographs accompanied by excerpts from the daybooks & letters