Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)
Context: One of the most ancient and inexpensive ways of obtaining shelter, was to utilize the space under sloping roof rafters. Indian wigwams have no other kind. Where civilization is slightly more advanced, low stone walls are built upon which the feet of the rafters rest.<!--Ch. III
Source: Science and Hypothesis (1901), Ch. IX: Hypotheses in Physics, Tr. George Bruce Halsted (1913)
Context: The Scientist must set in order. Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.
Source: Kindergarten Chats (1918), Ch. 10 : A Roman Temple
“Nothing is built on stone; All is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.”
Appearance in the National Geographic Channel program Naked Science: Alien Contact, as quoted in The New York Times (24 November 2004) http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C00E2D8173EF937A15752C1A9629C8B63&sec=&spon= and a CNN transcript of an interview with Seth Shostak from Anderson Cooper 360 (26 November 2004) http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0411/26/acd.01.html
“Two hands upon the breast,
And labour’s done;
Two pale feet crossed in rest,
The race is won.”
Now and Afterwards; there exists a similar Russian proverb: "Two hands upon the breast, and labour is past".
“People will no more advance their civility to a bear, than their money to a bankrupt.”
25 December 1753
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
“Further, at intervals they lay single stones which run through the entire thickness of the wall.”
Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book II, Chapter VIII, Sec. 7
Context: Our workmen, in their hurry to finish, devote themselves only to the facings of the walls, setting them upright but filling the space between with a lot of broken stones and mortar thrown in anyhow. This makes three different sections in the same structure; two consisting of facing and one of filling between them. The Greeks, however, do not build so; but laying their stones level and building every other stone lengthwise into the thickness, they do not fill the space between, but construct the thickness of their walls in one solid and unbroken mass from the facings to the interior. Further, at intervals they lay single stones which run through the entire thickness of the wall. These stones... by their bonding powers... add very greatly to the solidity of the walls.
Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book II, Chapter VIII, Sec. 4
"The Right to Privacy," 4 Harvard L. Rev. 193, 196 (1890).
Extra-judicial writings
“There are laws which the stone imposes upon us.”
Source: The Human Form: Sculpture, Prints, and Drawings, 1977, p. 46.
