“A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.”
Paul Klee (1879–1940) German Swiss painter
“Most adults have some childlike fascination for making and arranging larger structures out of smaller ones.”
Music, Mind, and Meaning (1981)
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Charles Lyell (1797–1875) British lawyer and geologist
Source: The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man (1863), Ch.21, p. 415
Context: We may understand why the species of the same genus, or genera of the same family, resemble each other more nearly in their embryonic than in their more fully developed state, or how it is that in the eyes of most naturalists the structure of the embryo is even more important in classification than that of the adult, 'for the embryo is the animal in its less modified state, and in so far it reveals the structure of its progenitor. In two groups of animals, however much they may at present differ from each other in structure and habits, if they pass through the same or similar embryonic stages, we may feel assured that they have both descended from the same or nearly similar parents, and are therefore in that degree closely related. Thus community in embryonic structure reveals community of descent, however much the structure of the adult may have been modified.
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Letter to Hans Muehsam (9 July 1951), Einstein Archives 38-408, quoted in The Ultimate Quotable Einstein (2010) by Alice Calaprice, p. 404 http://books.google.com/books?id=G_iziBAPXtEC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA404#v=onepage&q&f=false <br class="br">1950s
Irina Bokova (1952) Bulgarian diplomat
leadersmag.com http://www.leadersmag.com/issues/2012.3_Jul/Women%20Leaders/LEADERS-Irina-Bokova-UNESCO.html.
Northrop Frye (1912–1991) Canadian literary critic and literary theorist
Source: "Quotes", The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (1982), Chapter Two, p. 31
A. R. Rahman (1966) Indian singer and composer
Infinite Love, 16 December 2013, Official website of ARRahman http://www.arrahman.com/infinitelove.aspx,
“One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small”
Grace Slick (1939) American musician, writer and painter
White Rabbit (1965)
Context: One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small,
And the ones that mother gives you
Don't do anything at all.
Go ask Alice
When she's ten feet tall.
“But some children have clearer vision than adults.”
Edmund Cooper (1926–1982) British writer
Prisonner of Fire (1974)