Quoted in I. Gordon and S. Sorkin, The Armchair Science Reader, New York, 1959.
“God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Attributed to Einstein by his colleague Léopold Infeld in his book Quest: An Autobiography (1949), p. 279 http://books.google.com/books?id=fsvXYpOSowkC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA279#v=onepage&q&f=false <br class="br">Attributed in posthumous publications
“A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.”
Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867–1957) American children's writer, diarist, and journalist
“The price of corn will naturally rise with the difficulty of producing the last portions of it,…”
David Ricardo (1772–1823) British political economist, broker and politician
Source: The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (1821) (Third Edition), Chapter XXXII, Malthus on Rent, p. 276
“Nature is not embarrassed by difficulties of analysis. She avoids complication only in means.”
Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788–1827) French engineer and physicist
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Context: In choosing a theory, one should pay attention to simplicity in hypotheses only. Simplicity in computation can be of no weight in the balance of probabilities. Nature is not embarrassed by difficulties of analysis. She avoids complication only in means. Nature seems to be proposed to do much with little: it is a principle that the development of physics constantly supports by new evidence.
Auguste Rodin (1840–1917) French sculptor
RODIN, AUGUSTE. L'Art. Entretiens réunis par Paul Gsell, 1911
“Simply follow nature, Rousseau declares. Sade, laughing grimly, agrees.”
Camille Paglia (1947) American writer
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 235
“A light wind swept over the corn; and all nature laughed in the sunshine.”
Anne Brontë book The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XV : An Encounter and its Consequences; Gilbert Markham
Lester Bangs (1948–1982) American music critic and journalist
"Peter Laughner" (September/October 1977), p. 222
Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung (1988)
Henry Adams (1838–1918) journalist, historian, academic, novelist
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
Yukio Mishima book Confessions of a Mask
Source: Confessions of a Mask (1949), p. 153.
Context: My "act" has ended by becoming an integral part of my nature, I told myself. It's no longer an act. My knowledge that I am masquerading as a normal person has even corroded whatever of normality I originally possessed, ending by making me tell myself over and over again that it too was nothing but a pretense of normality. To say it another way, I'm becoming the sort of person who can't believe in anything except the counterfeit.
