Difference Principle

Famous quotes containing the words difference and/or principle:

    “There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “In case I conk out, this is provisionally what I have to do: I must clarify obscurities; I must make clearer definite ideas or dissociations. I must find a verbal formula to combat the rise of brutality—the principle of order versus the split atom.”
    —Ezra Pound (1885–1972)