Glowing Connections

Famous quotes containing the words glowing and/or connections:

    A low man
    will trade his shawl
    for an ox
    in the dead of winter,
    looking at the breasts
    of that dusky girl
    as if they’re glowing coals.
    Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)

    The conclusion suggested by these arguments might be called the paradox of theorizing. It asserts that if the terms and the general principles of a scientific theory serve their purpose, i. e., if they establish the definite connections among observable phenomena, then they can be dispensed with since any chain of laws and interpretive statements establishing such a connection should then be replaceable by a law which directly links observational antecedents to observational consequents.
    —C.G. (Carl Gustav)