“Science has always promised two things not necessarily related; an increase first in our powers, second in our happiness or wisdom, and we have come to realize that it is the first and less important of the two promises which it has kept most abundantly.” FirstsTwoImportantWisdomRealizingPromiseIncreaseIntelligenceRelatedTwo Things Book:The Modern Temper Source: The Modern Temper
“If believers decay in their first love, or in some other grace, yet another grace may grow and increase, such as humility, their brokenheartedness; they sometimes seem not to grow in the branches when they may grow at the root; upon a check grace breaks out more; as we say, after a hard winter there usually follows a glorious spring.” IfsFirstsMaySometimesHardSeemsChristianGrowsBreakGraceHumilityBlessingSpringRootsIncreaseWinterBelieverChecksChristian LifeGloriousBranchesDecayFirst LoveBreak OutChastisement Author:Richard Sibbes
“There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbors. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry.” MenWayLifeFirstsKindWarRealHandsSeemsThreeNationsWealthHonestIndustryThirdsMiracleIncreaseRewardsSeedsNeighborFavorsInnocentAcquireThrownCheatingFarmersVirtuousCommerceAgricultureFarmingHands Of GodRobberyThree WaysFarming And FarmersInnocent Life Book:Memoirs of the life and writings of B.F. ... Source: Memoirs of the life and writings of B.F. ...
“In a single sentence the moral is: admit that complexity always increases, first from the model you fit to the data, thence to the model you use to think about and plan about the experiment and its analysis, and thence to the true situation.” ThinkingFirstsUseSituationMoralPlansFitModelsIncreaseSimplicitySentencesExperimentsDataAnalysisComplexitySingle Sentence Author:John Tukey
“Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will shew the immensity of the first power in comparison of the second.” FirstsScienceNumbersIncreasePopulationComparisonAcquaintanceRatiosImmensitySubsistence Book:Population: The First Essay Source: Population: The First Essay
“In the fall of 1972, President Nixon announced that the rate of increase of inflation was decreasing. This was the first time a president used the third derivative to advance his case for reelection.” FirstsUsedTimeFallPresidentCasesFirst TimeThirdsIncreaseRateMathMathematicalInflationCalculusDerivativesMath EducationReelectionPresident Nixon Author:Hugo Rossi
“It is wonderful how cheered a pilot becomes after he shoots down his first machine; his morale increases by at least 100 percent.” FirstsWonderfulPercentMachinesIncreaseAviationCombatPilotsMorale Author:James Ira Thomas Jones
“Our first thought is always for those on life's first rung, and how we might increase their chances of climbing.” FirstsMightChanceIncreaseClimbing Author:Mitch Daniels
“The man who occupies the first place in an undemocratic state can give himself any award that takes his fancy, but it does not increase his authority - rather, the contrary. This was something Brezhnev and Chernenko did not understand. In all, Stalin had about as many decorations as, say, Mekhlis, and four or five times fewer than Brezhnev” MenGivingFirstsDoeStatesFiveFourHe ManAuthorityIncreaseContraryFancyAwardsFewerDecorationBrezhnev Author:Dmitri Volkogonov