Jorge Luis Borges book Ficciones
"The Secret Miracle"; Variant: Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.
Source: Ficciones (1944)
“As Angelo discovered in Measure for Measure, nothing corrupts like virtue.”
"A needle for your pornograph" (22 July 1971), p. 67
The Madwoman's Underclothes (1986)
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William Thomson (1824–1907) British physicist and engineer
Misattributed to Kelvin since the 1980s, either without citation or stating that it was made in an address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1900. There is no evidence that Kelvin said this, and the quote is instead a paraphrase of Albert A. Michelson, who in 1894 stated: "… it seems probable that most of the grand underlying principles have been firmly established … An eminent physicist remarked that the future truths of physical science are to be looked for in the sixth place of decimals." The attribution to Kelvin giving an address in 1900 is presumably a confusion with his “Two clouds” speech, delivered to the Royal Society in 1900 (see above), and which on the contrary pointed out areas that would subsequently see revolutions. <br class="br">Misattributed <br class="br">Source: Superstring: A theory of everything? (1988) by Paul Davies and Julian Brown <br class="br">Source: Rebuilding the Matrix : Science and Faith in the 21st Century (2003) by Denis Alexander <br class="br">Source: Einstein (2007) by Walter Isaacson, page 575 <br class="br">Source: The End of Science (1996), by , p. 19 https://books.google.com/books?id=S1Lmqh79dOoC&pg=PA19
“Man lives measuring, and he’s the measure of nothing. Not even of himself.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
El hombre vive midiendo, y no es medida de nada. Ni de sí mismo.
Voces (1943)
Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) Italian mathematician, physicist, philosopher and astronomer
"Matteo" in Concerning the New Star (1606)
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“A man is free in proportion to the measure of his virtues, and the extent to which he is free determines what his virtues can accomplish.”
Et pro virtutum habitu quilibet et liber est, et, quatenus est liber, eatenus virtutibus pollet.
John of Salisbury Policraticus
Bk. 7, ch. 25
Policraticus (1159)
Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate
Source: The Boy Crisis (2018), pp. 89
“Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.”
Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) Italian mathematician, physicist, philosopher and astronomer
The quote is widely misattributed to Galilei, but is actually from two French scholars, Antoine-Augustin Cournot and Thomas-Henri Martin. See "Der messende Luchs: Zwei verbreitete Fehler in der Galilei-Literatur" by Andreas Kleinert in "NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin" May 2009, Volume 17, Issue 2, pp 199–206.
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