Wind/measurement

Famous quotes containing the words wind and/or measurement:

“As flames do work and wind when they ascend,
So did I weave myself into the sense.”
—George Herbert (1593–1633)

“That’s the great danger of sectarian opinions, they always accept the formulas of past events as useful for the measurement of future events and they never are, if you have high standards of accuracy.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)