“HIBERNATE, v. i. To pass the winter season in domestic seclusion. There have been many singular popular notions about the hibernation of various animals. Many believe that the bear hibernates during the whole winter and subsists by mechanically sucking its paws. It is admitted that it comes out of its retirement in the spring so lean that it has to try twice before it can cast a shadow.” TryingBelieveHas BeensWholeScienceAnimalHumourBearsSpringShadowSeasonsNotionWinterCastsVariousRetirementPawsSeclusionWinter SeasonHibernation Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)
“We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.” YearsDoeMomentsScienceGivenBornHurtQualitySeasonsClaimsWineLaysAstrologyVintageMemories Dreams Reflections Author:Carl Jung
“Natural history is a matter of observation; it is a harvest which you gather when and where you find it growing. Birds and squirrels and flowers are not always in season, but philosophy we have always with us. It is a crop which we can grow and reap at all times and in all places and it has its own value and brings its own satisfaction.” MatterPhilosophyScienceValuesGrowsNaturalGrowingFlowerBirdSeasonsSatisfactionObservationAll TimeHarvestCropsReapSquirrelsNatural History Book:Under the Apple-Trees Source: Under the Apple-Trees
“This long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.” IfsLongRunningPastScienceDeathEasyOceanEconomicsTasksSeasonsAffairCurrentsStormGuidesUselessFlatsLong RunsEconomistMisleadCurrent Affairs Author:John Maynard Keynes
“Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck, And yet methinks I have astronomy. But not to tell of good or evil luck, Of plagues, of dearths, or season's quality; Nor can I fortune to brief minutes tell ... Or say with princes if it shall go well.” IfsWellsScienceEvilStarsQualityMinutesSeasonsLuckFortuneAstronomyJudgementPlaguePluck Book:Sonnets and Other Poems Source: Sonnets and Other Poems
“Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no human can hasten or retard.” HumansScienceDiscoverySeasonsMathematicsWoodsMathematicalProgrammingVioletSpringtimeRetard Author:Carl Friedrich Gauss
“Characteristically skeptical of the idea that living things would faithfully follow mathematical formulas, [Robert Harper] seized upon factors in corn which seemed to blend in the hybrid-rather than be represented by plus or minus signs, and put several seasons into throwing doubt upon the concept of immutable hypothetical units of inheritance concocted to account for selected results.” LifeIdeasScienceResultsDoubtConceptsSeasonsAccountsMathematicsFactorsMathematicalPlusFormulasThrowingUnitsHypothesisInheritanceCornLiving ThingsSkepticalSelectedHybridMinusHypotheticalHarper Author:Charles Thom