
On the Theory of Light https://books.google.com/books?id=Lo4_AAAAcAAJ (1828) p.494
On the Theory of Light https://books.google.com/books?id=Lo4_AAAAcAAJ (1828) p.494
On The Washington Journal of C-SPAN https://www.c-span.org/video/?124979-1/the-trek-beginning (11 June 1999)
1990s, 1999
On Haile Selassie, (June 1972), as quoted in Intervista con la Storia (sixth edition, 2011) p. 509
Intervista con la Storia
The Kitáb-I-Asmá
The Works of Wilkie Collins: The Black Robe [P.F. Collier, 1900] (p. 328)
Also in Wilkie Collins: A Literary Life by Graham Law & Andrew Maunder [Springer, 2008, ISBN 0-230-22750-3] ( p. 15 https://books.google.com/books?id=kKyHDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA15&f=false)
How We Live Now (2005)
On Friendship.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Quoted in H Eves Return to Mathematical Circles (Boston 1988). http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Quotations/Laplace.html
"The Confessions of Ebenezer Scrooge" p. 158 (originally published in Spirits of Christmas: Twenty Otherworldly Tales, edited by Kathryn Cramer and David G. Hartwell)
Short fiction, Bible Stories for Adults (1996)
Quote, 6 June 1824 (p. 45)
1815 - 1830, Delacroix' 'Journal' (1822 – 1824)
Reflections on Various Subjects (1665–1678), I. On Confidence
“To have merit to abstain from a fault, is a manner to be guilty.”
Avoir du mérite à s'abstenir d'une faute, c'est une façon d'être coupable.
Alexis (1929)
quotations for him
Source: “Zeitschrift für Geopolitik”, Februar 1936
“Thy modesty's a candle to thy merit.”
Act I, sc. iii
Tom Thumb the Great (1730)
Source: Das Ressentiment im Aufbau der Moralen (1912), L. Coser, trans. (1973), pp. 52-53
Variant:
The existence of law is one thing; its merit or demerit is another. Whether it be or be not is one enquiry; whether it be or be not conformable to an assumed standard, is a different enquiry. A law, which actually exists, is a law, though we happen to dislike it, or though it vary from the text, by which we regulate our approbation and disapprobation.
John Austin, Austin Lectures on Jurisprudence; or The Philosophy of Positive Law, 1873, Lecture V
Source: The Province of Jurisprudence Determined (1832), p. 278
“Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.”
Maximes et pensées (1805)
"The History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany" (1834)
Does quantum mechanics carry the seeds of its own destruction? (1991)
Source: Philosophy and Real Politics (2008), pp. 81-82.
Writing about the horns of Onthophagus, in 'The Onthophagi'
Source: A Short History Of The English Law (First Edition) (1912), Chapter IV, Improved Legal Procedure, p. 40
“Where would be the merit if heroes were never afraid?”
Où serait le mérite, si les héros n’avaient jamais peur?
Source: Tartarin de Tarascon (1872), P. 204; translation p. 80.
The Paradigms of Programming (1979)
1920s, Second State of the Union Address (1924)
How Plants are Trained to Work for Man (1921) Vol. 5 Gardening
Letter to George Washington (May 1776)
Ram Gopal, Indian Muslims: A Political History (1858-1947), pp. 264-65. quoted from Lal, K. S. (1992). The legacy of Muslim rule in India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. Chapter 8
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 489.
1840s, Past and Present (1843)
Column, May 14, 2009, "Tincture of Lawlessness" http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/05/14/tincture_of_lawlessness_96482.html at realclearpolitics.com.
2000s
Quoted from Will Durant, Our Oriental Heritage
Source: Systems Engineering Tools, (1965), Systems Engineering Methods (1967), p. 107
Awards
Source: Leela Venkatraman, An index of merit?, "The Hindu", December 27, 1998 http://www.hindu.com/folio/fo9812/98120100.htm
Il y a une élévation qui ne dépend point de la fortune: c’est un certain air qui nous distingue et qui semble nous destiner aux grandes choses; c’est un prix que nous nous donnons imperceptiblement à nous-mêmes; c’est par cette qualité que nous usurpons les déférences des autres hommes, et c’est elle d’ordinaire qui nous met plus au-dessus d’eux que la naissance, les dignités, et le mérite même.
Maxim 399.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
Source: Reminiscences (1964), p. vi
A Shorter History of Australia (1994)
"7th Foundational Falsehood of Creationism" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8Q2Db17v5U, Youtube (February 27, 2008)
Youtube, Foundational Falsehoods of Creationism
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 489.
Letter to Walt Whitman, thanking him for a copy of Leaves of Grass (July 21, 1855)
“An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid.”
As quoted in Einstein: The Man and His Achievement (1973) by G. J. Whitrow, p. 42
Variants:
If you can't explain your physics to a barmaid it is probably not very good physics.
As quoted in Journal of Advertising Research (March-April 1998)
A theory that you can't explain to a bartender is probably no damn good.
As quoted in The Language of God (2006) by Francis Collins, p. 60
Source: Men Under Stress, 1945, p. 38-39 cited in: The Clare Spark Blog (2009) Strategic Regression in “the greatest generation” http://clarespark.com/2009/12/09/strategic-regression-in-the-greatest-generation/ December 9, 2009
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 226.
Talk titled The Global Software Industry in Transformation: After GPLv3, Edinburgh, Scotland, June 26, 2007 http://www.archive.org/details/EbenMoglenLectureEdinburghJune2007text.
Source: The Friends of Voltaire (1906), Ch. 2 : Diderot : The Talker, p. 61
Letter to Ahmad Shah Abdali, Ruler of Afghanistan. Translated from the Urdu version of K.A. Nizami, Shãh Walîullah Dehlvî ke Siyãsî Maktûbãt, Second Edition, Delhi, 1969, p.83 ff.
From his letters
2010s, 2018, When Evil Becomes Inconvenient (2018)
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 231.
1860s, Criticisms on "The Origin of the Species" (1864)
Source: Rite of Passage (1968), Chapter 20 (p. 241).
Source: 1920s, Science and the Modern World (1925), Ch. 13: Requisites for Social Progress.
Langley v. Fisher (1843), 5 Beav. 447.
Quote
1920s, Toleration and Liberalism (1925)
Source: Milennial Dawn, Vol. III: Thy Kingdom Come (1891), p. 102.
Systems Movement: Autobiographical Retrospectives (2004)
Nonsense! The purpose of your vote is not to make yourself subscribe—that you can freely do at any time—but to compel others.
Speech to the Harborough Division Conservative Association Gala, Leicester (27 September 1969), from Still to Decide (Elliot Right Way Books, 1972), pp. 22-23
1960s
Speech delivered at Patna University Convocation on 27th November 1937.
Source: Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects, 1852, p. 402.
Mahayana, Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra, Chapter Eight. On Meat-eating
Source: A Mathematical Dictionary: Or; A Compendious Explication of All Mathematical Terms, 1702, p. 1, The Introduction; Lead paragraph
"On Patronage and Puffing"
Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)
Speech http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/the-nations-problem/
" When Merit-Based Hiring Is Deemed Racist, Bridges Fall Down https://www.unz.com/imercer/when-merit-based-hiring-is-deemed-racist-bridges-fall-down/," The Unz Review, March 29, 2018
2010s, 2018
Closing words, trans. G. A. Williamson
The Jewish War (c. 75 CE)
“…Fatherland without freedom and merit is a large word with little meaning.”
For What Reason do so Many Swedes Emigrate Every Year?, 1765.
Source: The Limits of Evolution, and Other Essays, Illustrating the Metaphysical Theory of Personal Ideaalism (1905), The Right Relation of Reason to Religion, p.258
Source: The Case of Mr. Richard Arkwright and Co., 1781, p. 23-24
“I do hope, that if I ever do anything, at least to have the merit of not copying anyone.”
Quote in Bazille's letter to his father, 1864; as cited in: article: Frédéric Bazille and the Birth of Impressionism, Corrinne Chong, PhD -independent scholar http://www.19thc-artworldwide.org/autumn17/chong-reviews-frederic-bazille-and-the-birth-of-impressionism
1861 - 1865