Estorick Gallery Quotes & Sayings

Politics is applied biology. — Ernst Haeckel

I am convinced that it is impossible to expound the methods of induction in a sound manner, without resting them upon the theory of probability. Perfect knowledge alone can give certainty, and in nature perfect knowledge would be infinite knowledge, which is clearly beyond our capacities. We have, therefore, to content ourselves with partial knowledge-knowledge mingled with ignorance, producing doubt. — William Stanley Jevons

All of God's people are ordinary people who have been made extraordinary by the purpose He has given them. — Oswald Chambers

Dorothy was in that state human beings passed through at the beginning of a love affair, in which they desire to say anything and everything to the beloved, to the alter ego, before they have learned what the real Other can and can't understand, can and can't accept. — A.S. Byatt

Leadership is one of sports' intangibles. Guys can score, guys can fight, guys can skate faster than anybody else. But not everybody can say, 'Follow me.' — Paul Coffey

When have you been most you, the very most you? — Madeleine L'Engle