Harold Hotelling famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.

  • A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or is not known in the time when he lives.

  • I still don't think like that. Because of Benazir, nobody else [in her party] was thinking about leadership. This position comes about only because of the vacuum that was created with her death.

  • Void is when there is absolutely nothing there and the nothing is natural, a complete vacuum. But empty - with empty, you are aware of what's supposed to be there. Empty means something is missing.

  • Man is a perpetually wanting animal.

  • Every man lives by exchanging.

  • Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.

  • It is in the social sphere, in the realm of politics and economics, that the Will to Order becomes really dangerous.

  • Everything is shared by everything else; there are no discontinuities.

  • Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.