Observation Towers

Famous quotes containing the words observation and/or towers:

    “Men look on knowledge which they learn—or might learn—from others as they do on the most beautiful structures which are not their own: in outward objects, they would rather behold their own hogsty than their neighbor’s palace; and in mental ones, would prefer one grain of knowledge gained by their own observation to all the wisdom of a thousand Solomons.”
    —Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)

    “The sardonic funeral towers of metropolitan finance.”
    —Lewis Mumford (1895–1990)