“The quest of the absolute leads into the four-dimensional world.”
Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882–1944) British astrophysicist
Source: The Nature of the Physical World (1928), Ch. 2 Relativity
Quote summary in The Los Angeles Times (2011)
“The quest of the absolute leads into the four-dimensional world.”
Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882–1944) British astrophysicist
Source: The Nature of the Physical World (1928), Ch. 2 Relativity
Kliment Voroshilov (1881–1969) Soviet military commander
Quoted in "The unmaking of Adolf Hitler" - Page 377 - by Eugene Davidson - 2004
Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885) 18th President of the United States
Source: 1880s, Personal Memoirs of General U. S. Grant (1885), Ch. 16.
Context: The right of revolution is an inherent one. When people are oppressed by their government, it is a natural right they enjoy to relieve themselves of the oppression, if they are strong enough, either by withdrawal from it, or by overthrowing it and substituting a government more acceptable. But any people or part of a people who resort to this remedy, stake their lives, their property, and every claim for protection given by citizenship — on the issue. Victory, or the conditions imposed by the conqueror — must be the result.
“Never march by flank in front of an army in position. This principle is absolute.”
Napoleon I of France (1769–1821) French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
“5. A free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims.”
Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921)
1910s, The Fourteen Points Speech (1918)
Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005) American business consultant
Source: 1930s- 1950s, The Future of Industrial Man (1942), p. 122
GG Allin (1956–1993) American singer-songwriter
Todd Phillips: Hated: GG Allin and the Murder Junkies, Skinny Nervous Guy Prod, 1994. 2007 DVD re-release watched March 1, 2010.
Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …
Source: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 42