Famous quotes containing the words power and/or sum:
“To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)
“We didn’t come to dig in Egypt for medals. Much more is learned from studying bits of broken pottery than from all the sensational finds. Our job is to increase the sum of human knowledge of the past, not to satisfy our own curiosity.”
—John L. Balderston (1899–1954)