Negative Concord

Famous quotes containing the words negative and/or concord:

    The negative cautions of science are never popular. If the experimentalist would not commit himself, the social philosopher, the preacher, and the pedagogue tried the harder to give a short- cut answer.
    Margaret Mead (1901–1978)

    I aspire to be acquainted with wiser men than this our Concord soil has produced, whose names are hardly known here.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)