Those who govern, having much Business on their hands, do not generally like to take the Trouble of considering and carrying into Execution new Projects. The best public Measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous Wisdom, but forc’d by the Occasion.
The more precise the measurement of position, the more imprecise the measurement of momentum, and vice versa.
The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
The measure of a man is not his intelligence. It is not how high he rises in the freak establishment. The measure of a man is this: how swiftly can he react to another person’s need? And how much of himself can he give?
Measure, time, and number, are merely modes of thinking, or, rather, of imagining.
