“There is something so ludicrous in promises of good or threats of evil a great way off as to render the whole subject with which they are connected easily turned into ridicule.” WayWholeEvilSubjectsPromiseThreatConnectedRidicule Book:Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition) Source: Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)
“It were much to be desired, that when mathematical processes pass through the human brain instead of through the medium of inanimate mechanism, it were equally a necessity of things that the reasonings connected with operations should hold the same just place as a clear and well-defined branch of the subject of analysis, a fundamental but yet independent ingredient in the science, which they must do in studying the engine.” ShouldHumansWellsProcessBrainStudyClearSubjectsIndependentFundamentalsConnectedMediumsDefinedMathematicalOperationsAnalysisReasoningBranchesIngredientsEnginesMechanismHuman Brain Author:Ada Lovelace
“Because the global ecosystem is a connected whole, in which nothing can be gained or lost and which is not subject to over-all improvement, anything extracted from it by human effort must be replaced. Payment of this price cannot be avoided; it can only be delayed. The present environmental crisis is a warning that we have delayed nearly too long.” HumansLongWholeLostEffortSubjectsCrisisEnvironmentalConnectedImprovementWarningSustainabilityReplacedAvoidedPaymentEcosystemsDelayedEnvironmental Crisis Author:Barry Commoner
“Woe be to him who tries to isolate one department of knowledge from the rest. All science is one: language, literature and history, physics, mathematics and philosophy; subjects which seem the most remote from one another are in reality connected, or rather they all form a single system.” TryingPhilosophyRealitySeemsFormLiteratureLanguageSubjectsMathematicsConnectedPhysicsDepartmentWoe Author:Jules Michelet
“I am a German nationalist, that means I am openly committed to my Volkstrum. All of my thoughts and actions belong to it. I am a socialist. I see before me no class or rank, but rather a community of people who are connected by blood, united by language, and subject to the same collective fate.” PeopleMeanActionLanguageCommunityUnitedClassFateBloodSubjectsCommittedConnectedCollectivesSocialistMy ThoughtsThoughts And Actions Author:Adolf Hitler