Quotes About Saltus

#1. Fragments of the natural method must be sought with the greatest care. This is the first and last desideratum among botanists.
Nature makes no jumps.
[Natura non facit saltus]
All taxa show relationships on all sides like the countries on a map of the world.

Carl Linnaeus

#2. I think our lives are surely but the dreams
Of spirits, dwelling in the distant spheres,
Who as we die, do one by one awake.

Edgar Saltus

#3. A plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm.

Edgar Saltus

#4. The older I've got, the easier I've found it to accept myself. I think I've finally learnt not to beat myself up so much.

Jimmy Nail

#5. Men hate to be misunderstood, and to be understood makes them furious.

Edgar Saltus

#6. Must Jesus bear the cross alone And all the world go free? No, there's a cross for every one, And there's a cross for me.

Charles M. Sheldon

#7. And now he was dead, his soul fled down to the Sunless Country and his body lying cold in the cold mud, somewhere in the city's wake.

Philip Reeve

#8. I had to realize that the use of samples has its rules, too.

Klaus Schulze

#9. Conspiracies do exist. Probably in this moment in New York there is an economic group making a conspiracy in order to buy three banks. But if they succeed, they are immediately discovered.

Umberto Eco

#10. [T]he progress of civilization corresponds with the spread of general nausea.

Edgar Saltus

#11. As a general rule, nine tenths of happiness may be said to rest on the state of health; when this is perfect, anything and everything may be a source of pleasure; in illness, on the other hand, nothing, no matter what its nature may be, is capable of affording any real enjoyment.

Edgar Saltus

#12. If we hold fast our confidence in Him, but our faith is also, by the exercise, strengthened: and so it comes, that, if we walk with God in any measure of uprightness of heart, the trials of faith will be greater and greater.

George Muller

#13. Skepticism is history's bedfellow.

Edgar Saltus

#14. We should seek neither to escape suffering nor to suffer less, but to remain untainted by suffering.

Simone Weil

#15. Our offensive philosophy is to simply find a way to get the ball into the hands of our team's best player.

Kelvin Sampson

#16. Briefly, then, life, to the pessimist, is a motiveless desire, a constant pain and continued struggle, followed by death, and so on, in secula seculorum, until the planet's crust crumbles to dust.

Edgar Saltus

#17. The Netherlands are wet, flat and full of stoned people.

John Entwistle

#18. You cannot reach space without overcoming the attraction of gravity.

Debasish Mridha