"For many parts of Nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, nor accommodated unto use with sufficient dexterity, without the aid and intervening of the mathematics, of which sort are perspective, music, astronomy, cosmography, architecture, engineery, and divers others."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Dexterity
37 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Dexterity →
Related Quotes
"Art if it is successful in the task of questioning reality, if it is good painting and not merely a performance of de…"
"With his almost acid sharpness of insight, with his almost animal dexterity in act, there went none of that large, un…"
"I have serviced no kings, yet I wager that I can shave a cheek with ten times more dexterity than any street mountebank!"
"He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand t…"
"Stonehenge, neither for disposition or ornament has anything admirable; but those huge rude masses, set on end and pi…"
"One needs only to study a certain positioning of the hand in relation to the keys to obtain with ease the most beauti…"
"Yet what makes the show what it is - a truly mesmerising theatrical event that should live forever in the memory - is…"
"When she goes about her kitchen duties, chopping, carving, mixing, whisking, she moves with the grace and precision o…"
"It's a program that uses magic as a form of therapy for people with disabilities, where magic is taught to patients i…"
"It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of charact…"