Speed/definition

Famous quotes containing the words speed and/or definition:

“No speed of wind or water rushing by
But you have speed far greater.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“The man who knows governments most completely is he who troubles himself least about a definition which shall give their essence. Enjoying an intimate acquaintance with all their particularities in turn, he would naturally regard an abstract conception in which these were unified as a thing more misleading than enlightening.”
—William James (1842–1910)