Simple Propositions

Famous quotes containing the words simple and/or propositions:

    Remember
    they had slight and simple ways
    sometimes,
    slight, simple-hearted, suave,
    imperious joys.
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics. Thus, “the whole is greater than its part;” “reaction is equal to action;” “the smallest weight may be made to lift the greatest, the difference of weight being compensated by time;” and many the like propositions, which have an ethical as well as physical sense. These propositions have a much more extensive and universal sense when applied to human life, than when confined to technical use.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)