Famous quotes containing the words direct, labour and/or hours:
“Science is a system of statements based on direct experience, and controlled by experimental verification. Verification in science is not, however, of single statements but of the entire system or a sub-system of such statements.”
—Rudolf Carnap (18911970)
“To be born woman is to know
Although they do not talk of it at school
That we must labour to be beautiful.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“As groceries in a pantry gleam and smile
Because they are important weights
Bought with the metal minutes of your pay,
So do these hours stand in solid rows,
The dowry for a use in common life.”
—Karl Shapiro (b. 1913)
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