“The fate of a battle is the result of a moment, of a thought: the hostile forces advance with various combinations, they attack each other and fight for a certain time; the critical moment arrives, a mental flash decides, and the least reserve accomplishes the object.” WarMomentsCertainFightingForceResultsFateObjectsBattleVariousAccomplishCriticalCombinationFlashReservesHostileCritical Moments Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
“What quality is shared by all objects that provoke our aesthetic emotions? Only one answer seems possible— significant form. In each, lines and colors combined in a particular way; certain forms and relations of forms, stir our aesthetic emotions. These relations and combinations of lines and colors, these aesthetically moving forms, I call ‘Significant Form’; and ‘Significant Form’ is the one quality common to all works of visual art.” WayArtSeemsMovingFormCertainLinesAnswersCommonEmotionQualityObjectsParticularColorRelationSignificantCombinationVisualsAestheticProvokingVisual Art Author:Clive Bell
“In a logically perfect language, there will be one word and no more for every simple object, and everything that is not simple will be expressed by a combination of words, by a combination derived, of course, from the words for the simple things that enter in, one word for each simple component.” CoursesLanguageSimplePerfectObjectsCombinationComponentsOne WordSimple Things Book:The Philosophy of Logical Atomism Source: The Philosophy of Logical Atomism
“[Mathematics is] purely intellectual, a pure theory of forms, which has for its objects not the combination of quantities or their images, the numbers, but things of thought to which there could correspond effective objects or relations, even though such a correspondence is not necessary.” FormNumbersObjectsTheoryPureIntellectualRelationMathematicsCombinationQuantityCorrespondence Author:Hermann Hankel
“The object of the engine is in fact to give the utmost practical efficiency to the resources of numerical interpretations of the higher science of analysis, while it uses the processes and combinations of this latter.” GivingFactsUseProcessObjectsHigherResourcesPracticalsCombinationAnalysisLatterInterpretationEnginesEfficiency Author:Ada Lovelace
“Experience, in short, is not a combination of mind and world, subject and object, method and subject matter, but is a single continuous interaction of a great diversity (literally countless in number) of energies.” WorldMindMatterEnergyNumbersSubjectsObjectsDiversityMethodCombinationInteractionSubject MatterGreat Diversity Book:Democracy and Education: Top American Authors Source: Democracy and Education: Top American Authors
“Photography does not form a separate, barren field of art. It is only a means of execution, uniform, rapid and sure, which serves the artist by reproducing with mathematical precision the form and effect of objects and even that poetry which at once arises from any harmonious combination.” MeanDoeArtFormArtistEffectsFieldsObjectsPhotographyAriseMathematicalCombinationExecutionUniformsRapidsHarmoniousPrecisionBarrenReproducing Author:Charles Negre