“It would appear… that moral phenomena, when observed on a great scale, are found to resemble physical phenomena; and we thus arrive.”

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.

The more do individual peculiarities, whether physical or moral, become effaced.

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.

In inquiries of this kind, at the fundamental principle, that the greater the number of individuals observe.

Whether statistics be an art or a science… or a scientific art.

And leave in a prominent point of view the general facts, by virtue of which society exists and is preserved.

It is the basis of social and political dynamics.

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 concern ourselves little.

Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress

Why does it take two days for a polaroid of John Major to appear?

Do not doubt that mountains walk simply because they may not appear to walk like humans.

From the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.

Later, I even appeared in a Rock Opera with Richard Gere.

To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.

Photography today appears to be in a state of flight… The familiar is made strange, the unfamiliar grotesque. The amateur forces his Sundays into a series of unnatural poses.

One day puss did not take his place punctually, but presently appeared with two mice, one of which it placed on its master’s plate, the other on its own.