Omitted Variable

Famous quotes containing the words omitted and/or variable:

“Histories of the world omitted China; if a Chinaman invented compass or movable type or gunpowder we promptly “forgot it” and named their European inventors. In short, we regarded China as a sort of different and quite inconsequential planet.”
—W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt)

“There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady’s head-dress.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)