Quetelet Adolphe Quotes

#1. The more I know about God, I am convinced He likes to read books and authors are His librarians. Every soul is a story waiting to be read.

Shannon L. Alder

#2. You fail by default when you live so cautiously you never fail.

J.K. Rowling

#3. [F]olks would better off dipping their heads in a bucket of liquid [nitrogen] and battering them against a tree very very hard than reading Baxter's Titan. It would not surprise me if reading that book causes birth defects.

Stephen Baxter

#4. The average man. The emergence of the concept.

Adolphe Quetelet

#5. Earthly things must be known to be loved; heavenly things must be loved to be known.

Blaise Pascal

#6. Political men, like goats, usually thrive best among inequalities.

Walter Savage Landor

#7. Every story is different, so what is a detail in one might not be in something else. Diversity is something I embrace and love about my work.

Colleen Atwood

#8. Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the wonder and charm of it is the sanity in insanity which it denotes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. Whether statistics be an art or a science ... or a scientific art, we concern ourselves little. It is the basis of social and political dynamics, and affords the only secure ground on which the truth or falsehood of the theories and hypotheses of that complicated science can be brought to the test.

Adolphe Quetelet

#10. The more progress physical sciences make, the more they tend to enter the domain of mathematics, which is a kind of centre to which they all converge. We may even judge the degree of perfection to which a science has arrived by the facility with which it may be submitted to calculation.

Adolphe Quetelet

#11. If you had something to tie you back to your old life, would you keep it or destroy it?

Aimee Carter

#12. I'm from Switzerland, so I grew up with great chocolate.

Daniel Humm

#13. Aren't you a little young to be, like, the voice of wisdom or something?

Haruki Murakami

#14. The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.

Anne Tyler