Observed Variable

Famous quotes containing the words observed and/or variable:

““To my thinking” boomed the Professor, begging the question as usual, “the greatest triumph of the human mind was the calculation of Neptune from the observed vagaries of the orbit of Uranus.”
“And yours,” said the P.B.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)

“There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady’s head-dress.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)