Aphorism Quotes (10)
Ars longa, vita brevis.
Art is long, life is short.
Art is long, life is short.
Aphorisms, i. The original was written in Greek. This Latin translation, by Seneca (De Brevitate Vitae, 1.1), is in John Bartlett, Familiar Quotations (1905), 6, footnote 3. The sense is generally taken to be, 'Life is short, but to learn a profession (an art) takes a long time.'
Contraria sunt complementa.
Opposites are complementary.
Opposites are complementary.
Motif on Niels Bohr's coat of arms.
L'Art est fait pour troubler, la Science rassure.
Art is meant to disturb, science reassures.
Art is meant to disturb, science reassures.
Georges Braque Illustrated Notebooks:1917-1955, trans. S. Appelbaum (1971), 10.
Natura nihil agit frustra.
Nature does nothing in vain.
Nature does nothing in vain.
In James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources (1893), 290:9.
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If I may paraphrase Hobbes's well-known aphorism, I would say that 'books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.'
'Universities: Actual and Ideal' (1874). In Collected Essays (1893), Vol. 3, 213.
If we couldn't laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
Comment made to Professor Erik Riidinger, 1962. Quotation supplied and translated by Professor Erik Rüdinger, Niels Bohr Archive.
No aphorism is more frequently repeated in connection with field trials, than that we must ask Nature few questions, or, ideally, one question, at a time. The writer is convinced that this view is wholly mistaken. Nature, he suggests, will best respond to a logical and carefully thought out questionnaire; indeed, if we ask her a single question, she will often refuse to answer until some other topic has been discussed.
'The Arrangement of Field Experiments', The Journal of the Ministry of Agriculture, 1926, 33, 511.
Tell me what you eat: I will tell you what you are.
The Philosopher in the Kitchen (1825), Aphorism iv.
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The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of mankind than the discovery of a star.
The Philosopher in the Kitchen (1825), Aphorism ix.
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Wit is the best safety valve modern man has evolved; the more civilization, the more repression, the more the need there is for wit.
Attributed.
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