“My theory stands as firm as a rock; every arrow directed against it will return quickly to its archer. How do I know this? Because I have studied it from all sides for many years; because I have examined all objections which have ever been made against the infinite numbers; and above all because I have followed its roots, so to speak, to the first infallible cause of all created things.” KnowsYearsFirstsMadeSpeakCausesSidesNumbersRocksTheoryReturnRootsLogicInfiniteCertaintyUncertaintyFirmReasoningArrowsObjectionsInfallibleOntologyArcher Author:Georg Cantor
“My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, my father's mother, had a gold charm for her made with the speak no, see no, hear no evil monkeys. And I was fascinated by that charm. I'd sit in my mother's lap and play with it all the time.” MadePlaySchoolMotherThreeEvilFatherSpeakWiseGoldClubsCharmGrandmotherFascinatedMonkeysMy GrandmotherLap Author:Mackenzie Phillips
“All my life, people have made fun of the way I speak. I guess because a lot of my vocabulary is made up of things that other people say. I started making fun of them and imitating them and now that's how I speak.” PeopleWayMadeSpeakFunVocabularyImitating Author:Gabourey Sidibe
“There are certainly good examples of incredibly brilliant, beautiful music that has been made commercially available and sold everywhere. But I would say that, for the most part, quantity certainly does not speak well for quality.” WellsDoeHas BeensMadeBeautifulSpeakQualityExampleAvailableBrilliantQuantityGood ExamplesBeautiful Music Author:Ian MacKaye
“And, to prevent mistakes, I must advertize you, that I now mean by elements, as those chymists that speak plainest do by their principles, certain primitive or simple, or perfectly unmingled bodies; which not being made of any other bodies, or of one another, are the ingredients of which all those called perfectly mixt bodies are immediately compounded, and into which they are ultimately resolved: now whether there be any such body to be constantly met with in all, and each, of those that are said to be elemented bodies, is the thing I now question.” MeanMadeSaidBodyScienceCertainSpeakSimpleMistakePrinciplesMetsElementsDefinitionsIngredientsPrimitive Book:The Sceptical Chymist Source: The Sceptical Chymist
“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
“After too much art that made too much sense, artists are operating blind again. They're more interested in the possible than the probable, the private that speaks publicly rather than the public with no private side at all.” ArtMadeArtistSpeakSidesToo MuchBlind Author:Jerry Saltz