“That air and harmony of shape express,
Fine by degrees, and beautifully less.”
Henry and Emma; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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British diplomat, poet 1664–1721Related quotes
“Patterns of gene expression are to organisms as melodies and harmonies are to sonatas.”
Source: The Sacred Depths of Nature (1998), p. 59
Context: Patterns of gene expression are to organisms as melodies and harmonies are to sonatas. It's all about which sets of proteins appear in a cell at the same time (the chords) and which sets come before or after other sets (the themes) and at what rate they appear (the tempos) and how they modulate one another (the developments and transitions). When these patterns go awry we may see malignancy. When they change by mutation we can get new kinds of organisms. When they work, we get a creature.
“Grace has been defined the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.”
"On Manner"
The Round Table (1815-1817)
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XVII Flight
Marlene Dietrich's ABC https://books.google.com/books?id=u7x5UYHMs0IC&pg=PT157 (1962)
Particularly Cats, ch. 2 (1967)
"Talks on the Appreciation of Art", The Delinator (Jan 1915)
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As quoted by Rosen, Kenneth H. (2013). Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications, McGraw-Hill, ISBN 9780071315012. p.29.