
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
“Very few experiments can, in the nature of things, be really crucial.”
Introduction
Higher Mathematics for Chemical Students (1911)
Context: It is necessary to guard against a possible danger... of submitting too readily to the result of a so-called "crucial experiment". Very few experiments can, in the nature of things, be really crucial. One so-called "crucial experiment" which decided between Newton's corpuscular theory of light and Huyghens' wave-theory, viz. the relation between the law of refraction and the velocity of light, was not at all decisive.
Source: Last Flight (1937), p. 70
Context: In my life I had come to realize that when things were going very well indeed it was just the time to anticipate trouble. And, conversely, I learned from pleasant experience that at the most despairing crisis, when all looked sour beyond words, some delightful "break" was apt to lurk just around the corner.
“Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.”
Source: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 12
“AMANDA: I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives.”
Source: Private Lives an Intimate Comedy in Three Acts
Les silences du colonel Bramble (The Silence of Colonel Bramble)
Inner and Outer Space (1965), directed by Andy Warhol
Source: Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), Ch. 3