Source: Essays on object-oriented software engineering (1993), p. 336
“There is a simple rule for composite objects, such as nuclei or atoms. The rule is that if such an object contains an odd number of fermions, the composite object is a fermion. Otherwise, it is a boson. …this simple rule doesn't care at all about the number of bosons in the composite object.”
Longing for the Harmonies: Themes and Variations from Modern Physics (1987)
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Quote from: 'Analysis of the Primary Elements of Painting', W. Kandinsky, 1928
1920 - 1930

Longing for the Harmonies: Themes and Variations from Modern Physics (1987)

“As to the objection that these rules are common in the world”
The Art of Persuasion
Context: As to the objection that these rules are common in the world, that it is necessary to define every thing and to prove every thing, and that logicians themselves have placed them among their art, I would that the thing were true and that it were so well known... But so little is this the case, that, geometricians alone excepted, who are so few in number that they are a single in a whole nation and long periods of time, we see no others that know it.

“The object is to win fairly, by the rules – but to win. ”

In the 1930's Grosz encouraged as art-teacher his students at the Art Students League in New York to study children's drawings
Source: a student's unpublished papers 'Notes on Drawing and Water Golor, 1935-36', George Grosz estate, Princeton, N.J.; as quoted in: George Grosz: Leben und Werk, ed. Uwe M. Schneede; Verlag Gerd Hatje, Stuttgart 1975, p. 38

In a letter to Camoin, Autumn 1914; as quoted in Matisse on Art, Jack Flam, University of California Press 1995 p. 275, note 5
1910s