Stones

Famous quotes containing the word stones:

“As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)

“this ant-and stone-swallowing uninjurable
artichoke which simpletons thought a living fable
whom the stones had nourished, whereas ants had done
so.”
—Marianne Moore (1887–1972)

“Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.”
—Jules Henri Poincare (1854–1912)