I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
Isaac Newton
Real friendships among men
Real friendships among men are so rare that when they occur they are famous. Clarence Day
Parallelogram
The vision shared by
The vision shared by both [French utopian] Charles Fourier and Robert Owen was for an entire town to fit into one structure. Owen’s design for what he called a parallelogram was essentially to have a whole city in one building, laid out around a huge quadrangle. Fourier’s scheme was to build a massive Versailles-like structure … Read more
But we must not
But we must not underestimate the potency of the mathematical process of abstraction. A surprising variety of things happen to have both magnitude and direction and to combine according to the parallelogram law; and many of them are not at all reminiscent of journeys. Banesh Hoffmann
The centre of gravity
The centre of gravity of any parallelogram lies on the straight line joining the middle points of opposite sides. Archimedes
To be famous, in
To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one’s landlady. Albert Camus