Leon Croizat famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Of these three essential factors, space might be said to be one with which biogeography is primarily concerned. However space necessarily interplays with time and form, therefore the three factors are as one of biogeographic concern.
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Let us suppose that we have laid on the table... [a] piece of glass... and let us homologize this glass to a whole order of plants or birds. Let us hit this glass a blow in such a manner as but to crack it up. The sectors circumscribed by cracks following the first blow may here be understood to represent families. Continuing, we may crack the glass into genera, species and subspecies to the point of finally having the upper right hand corner a piece about 4 inches square representing a sub-species.
-- Leon Croizat -
I have indeed lived and worked to my taste either in art or science. What more could a man desire? Knowledge has always been my goal. There is much that I shall leave behind undone...but something at least I was privileged to leave for the world to use, if it so intends...As the Latin poet said I will leave the table of the living like a guest who has eaten his fill. Yes, if I had another life to spend, I certainly would not waste it. But that cannot be, so why complain?
-- Leon Croizat
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Tomer: “What's this?†Cabinet: “Wt's ths?†Wedge: “Cabinet.†Tomer: “I know it's a cabinet, but it's talking.†Cabinet: “...ts tlkng†Janson: “Oh that. It's the Catann Minister of Crawling Into Very Small Spaces.†Tycho: “He bet Wedge he could fold himself in the that cabinet, around the shelves and all.†Hobbie: “Never bet against Wedge. The Minister gets to stay in there until he admits that it was a stupid bet and that Wedge doesn't owe him anything.
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Your belief system saturates the space around you.
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I always knew I was going to die in space.
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I always think back to the original movies and to those quieter moments where Luke is out in A New Hope, and there are the two suns setting. It is the equivalent, basically, of a farm boy dying to get out of his small town and do something bigger. It's those kinds of universal themes that ground this whole thing in space.
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His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right.
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Many persons who are not conversant with mathematical studies imagine that because the business of [Babbage’s Analytical Engine] is to give its results in numerical notation, the nature of its processes must consequently be arithmetical and numerical, rather than algebraical and analytical. This is an error. The engine can arrange and combine its numerical quantities exactly as if they were letters or any other general symbols; and in fact it might bring out its results in algebraical notation, were provisions made accordingly.
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The art of reading consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting non essentials.
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The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.
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the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.
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There can be no question of masking the evidence, of suppressing the absurd by denying one of the terms of its equation. It is essential to know whether one can live with it or whether, on the other hand, logic commands one to die of it.
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