Man Battle Network

Famous quotes containing the words man, battle and/or network:

    The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
    William Blake (1757–1827)

    One may confidently assert that when thirty thousand men fight a pitched battle against an equal number of troops, there are about twenty thousand on each side with the pox.
    Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)

    Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths?
    George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)