Famous quotes containing the words ultimate, collection and/or volume:
“If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason—for then we would know the mind of God.”
—Stephen Hawking (b. 1942)
“What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings—they are so trite, so threadbare, that we can hardly bring our lips to utter them. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race and the man who orders his life according to their teaching cannot go far wrong.”
—Norman Douglas (1868–1952)
“A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.”
—José Bergamín (1895–1983)