“A picture may be worth a thousand words, a formula is worth a thousand pictures.”
Edsger W. Dijkstra (1930–2002) Dutch computer scientist
Dijkstra (EWD1239: A first exploration of effective reasoning)
1990s
“A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.”
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“One picture is worth a thousand words”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
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“The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort”
Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
Source: Veronika Decides to Die
“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.”
Euripidés (-480–-406 BC) ancient Athenian playwright
“Every moment lost is worth the life of a thousand men.”
Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821–1877) Confederate Army general
Said to Braxton Bragg at Chickamauga, September 18-20, 1863. As quoted in May I Quote You, General Forrest? by Randall Bedwell.
1860s
Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) Italian mathematician, physicist, philosopher and astronomer
Third letter on sunspots (December 1612) to Mark Wesler (1558 - 1614), as quoted in Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo (1957) by Stillman Drake, p. 134 - 135; Italian text online at Liber Liber http://www.liberliber.it/biblioteca/g/galilei/lettere/html/lett08c.htm, also from IntraText http://www.intratext.com/IXT/ITA0188/_PQ.HTM.<br>Variant translation: In questions of science the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.<br>As quoted in Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men (1859) by François Arago, as translated by Baden Powell, Robert Grant, and William Fairbairn, p. 365 <br class="br">Other quotes <br class="br">Variant: In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man. <br class="br">Context: for in the sciences the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man. Besides, the modern observations deprive all former writers of any authority, since if they had seen what we see, they would have judged as we judge.
“Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word!”
Lewis Carroll book Through the Looking-Glass
Source: Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There
“Ten thousand do not turn the scale against a single man of worth.”
Heraclitus (-535) pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
in Eric Hoffer, Between the Devil and the Dragon (New York: 1982), p. 107
