Principal Bird Deity

Famous quotes containing the words principal, bird and/or deity:

    There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
    Denis Diderot (1713–1784)

    A Bird came down the Walk—
    He did not know I saw—
    He bit an Angleworm in halves
    Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)

    Whenever the deity contrives misfortunes for a man, he first harms their understanding.
    Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)