Qualities

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 (1642–1727)

    “The werewolf is neither man nor wolf, but a satanic creature with the worst qualities of both.”
    —John Colton (1886–1946)

    “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 (1873–1947)