Famous quotes containing the words ring, properties and/or extension:
“I like well the ring of your last maxim, It is only the fear of death makes us reason of impossibilities. And but for fear, death itself is an impossibility.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“A drop of water has the properties of the sea, but cannot exhibit a storm. There is beauty of a concert, as well as of a flute; strength of a host, as well as of a hero.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“The motive of science was the extension of man, on all sides, into Nature, till his hands should touch the stars, his eyes see through the earth, his ears understand the language of beast and bird, and the sense of the wind; and, through his sympathy, heaven and earth should talk with him. But that is not our science.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
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