“But as no two (theoreticians) agree on this (skin friction) or any other subject, some not agreeing today with what they wrote a year ago, I think we might put down all their results, add them together, and then divide by the number of mathematicians, and thus find the average coefficient of error. (1908)” ThinkingYearsTwoMightTodayTogetherScienceResultsNumbersSubjectsYears AgoSkinsAgreeAddErrorsAverageDividesMathematicianFriction Author:Hiram Maxim
“The prosecution [of impeachments], will seldom fail to agitate the passions of the whole community, and to divide it into parties more or less friendly or inimical to the accused. The subjects of its jurisdiction are those offenses which proceed from the misconduct of public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust, and they relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to the society itself.” MenDoneWholePassionCommunityPartyFailingSubjectsAbuseRelateInjuryFriendlyDividesOffenseAccusedViolationProsecutionJurisdictionImpeachmentPublic TrustAgitateMisconduct Author:Alexander Hamilton
“I contend that the continued racial classification of Homo sapiens represents an outmoded approach to the general problem of differentiation within a species. In other words, I reject a racial classification of humans for the same reasons that I prefer not to divide into subspecies the prodigiously variable West Indian land snails that form the subject of my own research.” HumansReasonProblemFormMy OwnLandSubjectsApproachResearchWestSpeciesIndianRejectsDividesHomo SapiensVariablesClassificationSnailDifferentiation Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“The national State divides its inhabitants into three classes: State citizens, State subjects, and foreigners. It must be held in greater honour to be a citizen of this Reich even if only a crossing-sweeper, than to be a king in a foreign State.” IfsStatesThreeClassGreaterSubjectsKingsCitizensHonourDividesForeignersCrossingsSweepers Author:Adolf Hitler
“I think that if I would talk on a political subject, if I talk about it, it would divide the audience on that issue. That's not my issue.” IfsThinkingPoliticalAudienceIssuesSubjectsDivides Author:Billy Graham
“On the subject of the feminist business, I just never think...of qualities which are specifically feminine or masculine. I suppose I divide people into two classes: the Irksome and the Non-Irksome without regard to sex. Yes and there are the Medium Irksome and the Rare Irksome.” PeopleThinkingTwoSexQualityClassSubjectsRegardFeministMediumsFeminineDividesMasculine Author:Flannery O'Connor