Famous quotes containing the word qualities:
“I frame no hypotheses; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called a hypothesis; and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy.”
—Isaac Newton (16421727)
“The qualities of a second-rate writer can easily be defined, but a first-rate writer can only be experienced. It is just the thing in him which escapes analysis that makes him first-rate.”
—Willa Cather (18731947)
“Some good qualities are like the senses: Those who are entirely deprived of them can have no notion of them.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (16131680)
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