Devised

Famous quotes containing the word devised:

“The wit of man has devised cruel statutes,
And nature oft permits what is by law forbid.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

“A sect or a party is an elegant incognito, devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origin. At last we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo! It is our own.”
—Arthur S. Eddington (1882–1944)