#comparison

Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#comparison #intolerance #itself #other #people

I really reject that kind of comparison that says, Oh, he is the best. This is the second best. There is no such thing. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#comparison #i #kind #oh #really

But sequence comparisons simply can't account for the development of complex biochemical systems any more than Darwin's comparison of simple and complex eyes told him how vision worked. ↗

— Michael Behe

#any #biochemical #comparison #comparisons #complex

I find myself enjoying a deeper love than I ever imagined was possible in the form of my daughter and certainly in the union with my wife. It makes everything else, including work, which is one of the things I'm most passionate about, pale by comparison. ↗

— Benjamin Bratt

#certainly #comparison #daughter #deeper #else

Charles Francis Adams was singular for mental poise — absence of self-assertion or self-consciousness — the faculty of standing apart without seeming aware that he was alone — a balance of mind and temper that neither challenged nor avoided notice, nor admitted question of superiority or inferiority, of jealousy, of personal motives, from any source, even under great pressure. ↗

— Henry Adams

#humility #education

The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

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This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the soul, whereby a man realizes himself on earth. It is impossible to be concerned with anything else in art. ↗

— Robert Delaunay

#anything #art #birth #communication #comparison

I'm OCD beyond comparison. ↗

— Fred Durst

#comparison #i

That is to say, nature's laws are causal; they reveal themselves by comparison and difference, and they operate at every multivariate space/time point. ↗

— Edward Tufte

#comparison #difference #every #laws #nature

There is no comparison between the training here and the training in Israel. ↗

— Isaac Yeffet

#comparison #here #israel #training