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It is remarkable that whilst the Doctors of the Sorbonne were urging Francis the First absolutely to suppress printing even as late as 1533 and whilst this enlightened monarch had actually issued letters-patent January 3 1535 prohibiting under pain of death any person to print any book or books, and ordering all booksellers' shops to be closed under the same penalty, the Jews should have hailed with delight this invention as a Divine gift and sung its praises because it enabled them to multiply and circulate the word of God.
christian david ginsburg— Introduction to the Massoretico-Critical Edition of the Hebrew Bible, p.779
The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.
edward r. murrow— On receiving the "Family of Man" Award (1964)
Men multiply like Mice in a barn if they have unlimited Means of Subsistence.
Richard Cantillon— 1730-4 Essay on the Nature of Trade.
Wherever we can multiply our forces and our civilizational efforts, absorbing other elements, no law can prohibit us from doing so, as such actions are our duty.
roman dmowski— Tomaszewski J. Kresy Wschodnie w polskiej my?li politycznej XIX i XX w.//Mi?dzy Polsk? etniczn? a historyczn?. Polska my?l polityczna XIX i XX wieku.—T.6.—Warszawa, 1988.—S.101. Cited through: Oleksandr Derhachov (editor), "Ukrainian Statehood in the Twentieth Century: Historical and Political Analysis", 1996, Kiev
Some guy hit my car fender the other day, and I said unto him, "Be fruitful and multiply." But not in those words.
woody allen— The Woody Allen Companion (1993) edited by StephenJ. Spignesi, Ch. 7
One of the heresiarchs of Uqbar had stated that mirrors and copulation are abominable, since they both multiply the numbers of man.
jorge luis borges— Variant translation: Mirrors and copulation are obscene, for they increase the numbers of mankind.Cf. "Hakim, the Masked Dyer of Merv", in A Universal History of Iniquity (1935)
Russian forests crash down under the axe, billions of trees are dying, the habitations of animals and birds are laid waste, rivers grow shallow and dry up, marvelous landscapes are disappearing forever.... Man is endowed with creativity in order to multiply that which has been given him; he has not created, but destroyed. There are fewer and fewer forests, rivers are drying up, wildlife has become extinct, the climate is ruined, and the earth is becoming ever poorer and uglier.
Anton Chekhov— Act I (Uncle Vanya (1897))
It is to be emphasized that no matter how many [amplitude] arrows we draw, add, or multiply, our objective is to calculate a single final arrow for the event . Mistakes are often made by physics students at first because they do not keep this important point in mind. They work for so long analyzing events involving a single photon that they begin to think that the arrow is somehow associated with the photon [rather than with the event].
richard feynman— p. 75-76 (QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter (1985))
The human brain cannot release enough neurotransmitters to feel emotion a thousand times as strong as the grief of one funeral. A prospective risk going from 10,000,000 deaths to 100,000,000 deaths does not multiply by ten the strength of our determination to stop it. It adds one more zero on paper for our eyes to glaze over.
eliezer yudkowsky— Cognitive Biases Potentially Affecting Judgment of Global Risks, a chapter of Global Catastrophic Risks, edited by Nick Bostrom and Milan M. Cirkovic (2008)
caturadhikam ?atama??agu?am dv??a??istath? sahasr???m ayutadvayavi?kambhasy?sanno v?ttapari??ha?. Translates to: Add four to 100, multiply by eight, and then add 62,000. By this rule the circumference of a circle with a diameter of 20,000 can be approached. Thus according to the rule ((4 + 100) × 8 + 62000)/20000 = 62832/20000 = 3.1416, which is accurate to five significant figures.
— In: Arijit Roy The Enigma of Creation and Destruction, Author House, 28 October 2011, p.27
— The irrationality of pi was proved by Lambert in Europe in the year 1761.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
— Sun Tzu among many other military thinkers and leaders believed in fate and determination from the correct application of theory, the state of the opponent's and one's own power, and a code for the general and a code for the soldier to follow, rather than the Machiavellian type of intuition that evokes an evolution of opportunism that brought great historical consequences as it dominated over the classical and medieval ethical doctrines. Thus this statement is contrary to Sun Tzu principles. Nevertheless, there is a possible relation to the quote: Quickness is the essence of the war.
For what can I increase Or multiply, but curses on my head?
john milton— 1665 Adam's lament. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.10, l.731-2.
That false secondary power By which we multiply distinctions, then Deem that our puny boundaries are things That we perceive, and not that we have made.
william wordsworth— 1799-1805 The Prelude, bk.2, l.216-19 (published1850).
The listeners who buy books after a reading multiply that reading; the author who realizes that he or she may be writing on a blank page but is at least not speaking to a blank wall may be encouraged by the experience, and write more.
Alberto Manguel— The Author As Reader, p. 259
The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; or rather, can make copies of their works, to what number they please, which shall be as valuable as the originals themselves.
joseph addison— No. 166 (10 September 1711).
The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
jorge luis borges— "Hakim, the Masked Dyer of Merv", in A Universal History of Iniquity (1935); tr. Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions (1998). Cf. Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (1940)
I look before me at my lighted candles, I don’t want to turn around and see with horror How quickly the dark line is lengthening, How quickly the candles multiply that have been put out.
constantine p. cavafy— "Candles" [?], as translated by Manolis, in Constantine P. Cavafy: Poems (2008) edited by George Amabile
The aim of education is to strengthen and multiply the powers and activities of the mind rather than to increase its possessions.
john lancaster spalding— p. 230 (Aphorisms and Reflections (1901))
Think ye by gazing on each other's eyes To multiply your lovely selves?
Percy Bysshe Shelley— Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound (1820), Act VI, scene 4.
The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; or rather, can make copies of their works, to what number they please, which shall be as valuable as the originals themselves.
joseph addison— Joseph Addison, The Spectator. No. 166.
Disease-carrying thoughts swarm and multiply in the dark and twisted labyrinths of our minds, and all that is needed is a mob and a good political slogan for the epidemic to be spread once again, with a burst of automatic weapons or a mushroom cloud.
romain gary— Introduction to The Plague (1946) by Albert Camus, as translated in a 1962 edition.
People think that creativity is largely a matter of talent, experience, or luck. They are wrong. Talent, experience, and luck are all key elements, but there is something more fundamental, accessible, and powerful that you can use to multiply your creative effect.
richard koch— Chapter: The 80/20 Principle Is at the Heart of Creation
Today I will multiply my value a hundredfold.
og mandino— Ch. 15 : The Scroll Marked VIII, p. 88
The plurality that we perceive is only an appearance; it is not real. Vedantic philosophy... has sought to clarify it by a number of analogies, one of the most attractive being the many-faceted crystal which, while showing hundreds of little pictures of what is in reality a single existent object, does not really multiply that object...
erwin schrödinger— "The Mystic Vision" as translated in Quantum Questions: Mystical Writings of the World's Great Physicists (1984) edited by Ken Wilber
