— Karl Marx, book Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
Paris Manuscripts (1844), Private Property and Communism, p. 43.
— Elizabeth I of England Queen regnant of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until 1603 1533 - 1603
To the Spanish Ambassador (1580).
— Baron d'Holbach French-German author, philosopher, encyclopedist 1723 - 1789
La Système de la nature; quoted in The Law of Reason, published by J. Thompson, p. 40.
— Richard Feynman, The Character of Physical Law
The Character of Physical Law (1965), Context: Now we have a problem. We can deduce, often, from one part of physics like the law of gravitation, a principle which turns out to be much more valid than the derivation. This doesn't happen in mathematics, that the theorems come out in places where they're not supposed to be!
chapter 2, “ The Relation of Mathematics to Physics http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9ZYEb0Vf8U” referring to the law of conservation of angular momentum
— Franz Boas German-American anthropologist 1858 - 1942
Race and Democratic Society (1945), Chapter 2.
— Raymond Chandler Novelist, screenwriter 1888 - 1959
Context: There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Neither is independent of the other or more important than the other. Without art, science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. Without science, art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quackery. The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.
"Great Thought" (19 February 1938), published in The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler (1976)
— Abraham Lincoln 16th President of the United States 1809 - 1865
Misattributed, This quote is often misattributed to Lincoln. The earliest instance that Quote Investigator could locate was "in an advertisement in 1947 for a book about aging by Edward J. Stieglitz, M.D". The advertisement for “The Second Forty Years” which ran in the Chicago Tribune newspaper read like this: The important thing to you is not how many years in your life, but how much life in your years! (Compare 1947 March 16, Chicago Tribune, “How Long Do You Plan to Live?”, [Advertisement for the book "The Second Forty Years" by Edward J. Stieglitz, M.D.], p. C7, Chicago, Illinois. (ProQuest)). Source of misattribution: It’s Not the Years in Your Life That Count. It’s the Life in Your Years - Abraham Lincoln? Adlai Stevenson? Edward J. Stieglitz? Anonymous? by Quote Investigator on July 14, 2012 http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/07/14/life-years-count/
To my way of thinking it is not the years in your life but the life in your years that count in the long run.
Adlai Stevenson II, Address at Princeton University, "The Educated Citizen" (22 March 1954) http://infoshare1.princeton.edu/libraries/firestone/rbsc/mudd/online_ex/stevenson/adlai1954.html. This has also been paraphrased "What matters most is not the years in your life, but the life in your years" and misattributed to Abraham Lincoln and Mae West.
Variant: It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.
Adlai Stevenson II, "If I Were Twenty-One" in Coronet (December 1955).
— Robert Baden-Powell lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and Chief Scout of the Scout Movement 1857 - 1941
— John Lennon English singer and songwriter 1940 - 1980
As quoted in Sunday Herald Sun [Melbourne, Australia] (13 January 2003)]
— Octavia E. Butler, book Adulthood Rites
Adulthood Rites (1988), Part II “Phoenix” chapter 4 (p. 329).
— Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents
Parable of the Talents (1998), Chapter 21 (p. 430)
— Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents
Parable of the Talents (1998), Chapter 20 (p. 404)
— Octavia E. Butler, book Patternmaster
Patternmaster (1976), Chapter 6 (p. 717)
— Warren Bennis American leadership expert 1925 - 2014
2000s, Warren G. Bennis (2009) On Becoming a Leader. p. 190
— Bob Marley Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician 1945 - 1981
