Quetelet Quotes

#1. The Church is the merciless heart of the State.

Pier Paolo Pasolini

#2. Virtue knowing no base repulse, shines with untarnished honour; nor does she assume or resign her emblems of honour by the will of some popular breeze.
[Lat., Virtus repulse nescia sordidae,
Intaminatis fulget honoribus;
Nec sumit aut ponit secures
Arbitrio popularis aurae.]

Horace

#3. You cant get beyond the body unless you free the body itself.

Ida Rolf

#4. Let us not search for the guilty ones only among others, let us speak the bitter truth: we are all guilty ... each and every one of us.

Maxim Gorky

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

Adolphe Quetelet

#6. For all I knew, they probably been in the shit together. I wouldn't put it past them. When

Tynessa

#7. Of all the arts poetry (which owes its origin almost entirely to genius and will least be guided by precept or example) maintains the first rank.

Immanuel Kant

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. It's what the Taliban does in Afghanistan, it's what gets done in the Middle East, and it's clearly something that certain mainly conservative groups in the United States would like to do. They miss the good old days, when men were men and women were nothing.

Anna Quindlen