Called

Famous quotes containing the word called:

    If ever there was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson, called New York.
    O. Henry [William Sydney Porter] (1862–1910)

    Everybody who does not live in a prostitute’s bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays.
    George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    I frame no hypotheses; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called a hypothesis; and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy.
    Isaac Newton (1642–1727)