Conditions

Famous quotes containing the word conditions:

    “The prime lesson the social sciences can learn from the natural sciences is just this: that it is necessary to press on to find the positive conditions under which desired events take place, and that these can be just as scientifically investigated as can instances of negative correlation. This problem is beyond relativity.”
    —Ruth Benedict (1887–1948)

    “The strong sunlight, the wind from the sea,
    all the conditions of its existence,
    may have flaked off the paint, if ever it was painted,
    and made it homelier than it was.”
    —Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)

    “Under all conditions well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.”
    —Leon Trotsky (1879–1940)