Inverse Square Law

Famous quotes containing the words inverse, square and/or law:

    “Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul. The spirit sports with time.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “This house was designed and constructed with the freedom of stroke of a forester’s axe, without other compass and square than Nature uses.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “To be a Negro is to participate in a culture of poverty and fear that goes far deeper than any law for or against discrimination.... After the racist statutes are all struck down, after legal equality has been achieved in the schools and in the courts, there remains the profound institutionalized and abiding wrong that white America has worked on the Negro for so long.”
    —Michael Harrington (1928–1989)