“I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousand different theories in connection with the electric light ... Yet in only two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory.” MadeTwoDifferentLightThreeSpeakCasesTheoryThousandProveDiscoveryConnectionsExperimentsElectricExaggerationElectric Light Author:Thomas A. Edison
“I speak without exaggeration when I say that I have constructed 3,000 different theories in connection with the electric light, each one of them reasonable and apparently likely to be true. Yet only in two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory. My chief difficulty was in constructing the carbon filament... Every quarter of the globe was ransacked by my agents, and all sorts of the queerest materials used, until finally the shred of bamboo, now utilized by us, was settled upon.” TwoDifferentLightUsedSpeakCasesMaterialsTheoryProveConnectionsDifficultyExperimentsBeing TrueAgentsChiefsReasonableQuartersElectricGlobesCarbonExaggerationElectric LightBamboo Author:Thomas A. Edison
“The connection between health and productivity at work is intuitively obvious but has not been demonstrated to the satisfaction of either researchers or corporate financial officers. Ronald Kessler and Paul Stang help to bridge the usual gap between research and the marketplace with the help of a top-notch group of the best 'real-world' investigators obtainable-all in the cause of making the case that employee health should be treated as an investment in business performance-thus creating the new discipline of health and productivity management.” WorldShouldRealHelpingCausesCasesGroupsDisciplineCreatingResearchConnectionsPerformancesManagementInvestmentFinancialSatisfactionObviousProductivityTreatedCorporateBridgesEmployeeGapsReal WorldOfficersUsualMarketplaceResearchersInvestigatorsNotchesTop Notch Author:Sean Sullivan
“Over the past few years, the Supreme Court was six times more likely to accept cases from an elite group of 66 lawyers than it was from more than 99 percent of those who petitioned the court. That's the finding of a recent Reuters special report called "The Echo Chamber." It illustrates how almost half the appeals accepted by the court over a nine-year period came from this cadre of elite lawyers--many of whom have personal connections to the nine justices.” YearsPastJusticeHalfAcceptingCasesGroupsSpecialPeriodsSixFindingsPercentConnectionsCourtLawyerAcceptedSupremeNineAppealsReportsElitesEchoesSupreme CourtChamberOver The PastNine YearsPersonal ConnectionCadre Author:Dahlia Lithwick
“Self-expression is not enough; experiment is not enough; the recording of special moments or cases is not enough. All of the artshave broken faith or lost connection with their origin and function. They have ceased to be concerned with the legitimate and permanent material of art.” ArtSelfEnoughMomentsLostCasesSpecialExpressionMaterialsBrokenConcernedConnectionsFunctionExperimentsPermanentSelf ExpressionSpecial Moments Author:Jane Heap
“There's nothing tiny or insignificant. Everything is significant. And everything flows on the same basis of Laws. Whether you are looking at world events or something that's happening in your kitchen drawer, broad and important, or narrow and seemingly insignificant, there's potential for connection or disconnection in either case. And it is only the connection or the disconnection that is of really any importance.” WorldImportantLawUniverseCasesEventsHappeningsFlowConnectionsImportanceBasesTinySignificantKitchenBroadsInsignificantDrawersDisconnectionLearn To AppreciateWorld Events Author:Esther Hicks
“Any use of the names of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, in connection with any violence or killing of police, is reprehensible and against the pursuit of justice in both cases.” UseNamesJusticeCasesViolenceConnectionsPoliceKillingPursuitBrownEricPursuit Of Justice Author:Al Sharpton
“I write fiction longhand. That's not so much about rejecting technology as being unable to write fiction on a computer for some reason. I don't think I would write it on a typewriter either. I write in a very blind gut instinctive way. It just doesn't feel right. There's a physical connection. And then in nonfiction that's not the case at all. I can't even imagine writing nonfiction by hand.” ThinkingWayFeelsWritingI CanReasonHandsFictionCasesTechnologyImagineComputerConnectionsBlindGutsNonfictionTypewritersFeels RightRejectingWriting Nonfiction Author:Jennifer Egan
“Not until my fourteenth or fifteenth year did I begin to come across the word 'Jew,' with any frequency, partly in connection with political discussions.... For the Jew was still characterized for me by nothing but his religion, and therefore, on grounds of human tolerance, I maintained my rejection of religious attacks in this case as in others. Consequently, the tone, particularly that of the Viennese anti-Semitic press, seemed to me unworthy of the cultural tradition of a great nation.” YearsHumansStillsPoliticalNationsReligiousCasesTraditionConnectionsPressesJewToleranceDiscussionToneRejectionFrequencyUnworthyGreat NationsMein KampfAnti Semitic Author:Adolf Hitler
“A particular rule that seems to make sense in the individual case makes no sense when it is made a universal rule and applied to all cases. It makes no sense because it fails to take into account the connection between one broken window left untended and a thousand broken windows.” MadeSeemsIndividualLeftCasesFailingParticularBrokenThousandWindowConnectionsUniversalAccountsMake SenseBroken Windows Book:Thinking about Crime Source: Thinking about Crime
“I think it's just been a core part of the Cuban revolution to have a very high level of internationalism. I mean, these cases you've mentioned are cases in point, but the most extreme case was the liberation of Africa. Take the case of Angola for example, and there are real connections between Cuba and Angola-much of the Cuban population comes from Angola.” ThinkingMeanRealLevelsCasesExampleRevolutionConnectionsPopulationExtremesCoreLiberationCubaCubanHigh LevelInternationalismCuban RevolutionReal ConnectionAngola Author:Noam Chomsky
“There have been studies done on people who meditate and they have found that they actually have increased grey matter in certain parts of their brain and more neural conductivity, meaning more connections between certain parts of the brain. They have increased capacity for, in some cases, memory, or reasoning.” PeopleHas BeensMatterDoneCertainFoundMemoriesBrainCasesStudyCapacityConnectionsReasoningGreyGrey Matter Author:Jennifer Ashton
“And in the case of superior things like stars, we discover a kind of unity in separation. The higher we rise on the scale of being, the easier it is to discern a connection even among things separated by vast distances.” KindStarsCasesHigherEasierConnectionsDistanceUnitySeparationScalesSuperiors Book:The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations Source: The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations