All Quotes

“Give me a place to stand, and I shall move the world”

“Give me a place to stand and with a lever I will move the whole world. This variant derives from an earlier source than Pappus: The Library of History of Diodorus Siculus , Fragments of Book XXVI , as translated by F. R. Walton, in Loeb Classical Library (1957) Vol. XI. In Doric Greek this may have originally been Πᾷ βῶ, καὶ χαριστίωνι τὰν γᾶν κινήσω πᾶσαν [ Pā bō, kai kharistiōni tan gān kinēsō [variant kinasō ] pāsan ].”

“Give me a lever and a place to stand and I will move the earth.”

“Give me a fulcrum, and I shall move the world.”

“Give me a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.”

“Noli turbare circulos meos . or Noli tangere circulos meos. Do not disturb my circles !”

“noli … istum disturbare”

“Reportedly his last words, said to a Roman soldier who, despite being given orders not to, killed Archimedes during the conquest of Syracuse; as quoted in World Literature: An Anthology of Human Experience (1947) by Arthur Christy, p. 655.”

“(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You've Been Gone”

“People walkin' around everyday, Playin' games and takin' scores. Tryin' to make other people lose their minds. Well be careful you don't lose yours. Oh think (think) Think about what you're tryin' to do to me. Woo”

“I want to be what he wants when he wants it, and whenever he needs it And when he's lonesome and feelin' love starved I'll be there to feed it I'm givin' him a little bit for each day He turns me right on when I hear him say (Hey baby let's get away, let's go somewhere far) (Baby can we?) Well I don't care. " Day Dreaming ", from Young”

“Step n' move your hips With a feelin' from side to side Sit yourself down in your car And take a ride. And while you're movin' Rock steady Rock steady baby. Let's call this song exactly what it is (What it is”

“You walked in on the sly Scopin' for love In the crowd, I caught your eye You can't hide your stuff. You came to catch You thought I'd be naive and tame You met your match I beat you at your own game. " Who's Zoomin' Who ", written with Preston Glass and Narada Michael Walden , from Who's Zoomin' Who?”

“In order to become Aretha Franklin you really have to be able to assess an inheritance and find yourself able to use it. 1980 interview in Conversations with James Baldwin edited by Louis H. Pratt and Fred L. Standley”

“Congressman John Lewis on Aretha Franklin: ‘One of God’s precious gifts’”

“Official Website”

“Aretha Franklin on IMDb”

“Philosophy is the science of truth.”

“My lectures are published and not published; they will be intelligible to those who heard them, and to none beside. Letter to Alexander the Great as quoted by William Whewell , History of the Inductive Sciences (1837), Ch. 2, Sect. 2”

“Nature does not do anything in vain .”

“Of things said without any combination, each signifies either substance or quantity or qualification or a relative or where or when or being”

“Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact. I.13 , 78a.22”

“We may assume the superiority ceteris paribus [all things being equal] of the demonstration which derives from fewer postulates or hypotheses”

“Also known as Occam's razor or the principle of parsimony / economy”

“Richard McKeon (tr.) (1963), p. 150”

“The science which has to do with nature clearly concerns itself for the most part with bodies and magnitudes and their properties and movements, but also with the principles of this sort of substance, as many as they may be. On the Heavens Book I, pg. 1”

“But it is better to assume principles less in number and finite, as Empedocles makes them to be. All philosophers... make principles to be contraries... (for Parmenides makes principles to be hot and cold, and these he demominates fire and earth) as those who introduce as principles the rare and the dense. But Democritus makes the principles to be the solid and the void; of which the former, he says, has the relation of being, and the latter of non”

“The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half”

“These pictures are not occult, but they are psychic because everything that emanates from the human spirit or human brain is psychic. It is not supernatural; nothing is. It is preternatural in the sense that it is not known to our ordinary senses. It is the effect of the joining on the one hand of imagination, and on the other hand of some power of materialization. The imagination, I may say, comes from me”

“Testimony of an Enthusiast”