Through swimming, I wanted to reclaim our pride as Japanese people.

-- Hironoshin Furuhashi

There is no way to make an accurate map except by walking and measuring.

-- Inō Tadataka

The steam engine is the enemy of progress as long as it wastes 90 percent of its energy.

-- Rudolf Diesel

Nature's action is complex: and nothing is gained in the long run by pretending that it is simple.

-- Alfred Marshall

We might as reasonably dispute whether it is the upper or the under blade of a pair of scissors that cuts a piece of paper, as whether value is governed by utility or cost of production.

-- Alfred Marshall

Instead of using only comparative and superlative Words, and intellectual Arguments, I have taken the course to express my self in Terms of Number, Weight, or Measure.

-- William Petty