Successive Addition

Famous quotes containing the words successive and/or addition:

    He represents the privilege of the intellect, the power, namely, of carrying up every fact to successive platforms, and so disclosing, in every fact, a germ of explanation.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    As easy mayst thou fall
    A drop of water in the breaking gulf,
    And take unmingled thence that drop again,
    Without addition or diminishing,
    As take from me thyself and not me too.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)