quotes about Topography
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The placing of the center pawns determines the 'topography' of a game of chess.
-- Alexander Kotov -
Topography displays no favorites; North's as near as West. More delicate than the historians' are the map-makers' colors.
-- Elizabeth Bishop -
Try for a record of emotion, rather than a piece of topography.
-- Frederick H. EvansSource : Frederick H. Evans, Anne Hammond (1992). “Frederick H. Evans: selected texts and bibliography”
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Topography is one of my chief themes in my poetry..about the country, the suburbs and the seaside... then there come's love... and increasingly; the fear of death.
-- John BetjemanSource : Radio Talk on BBC Third Programme, 1949.
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But even physics cannot be defined from an atomic topography.
-- Michael Polanyi -
We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this topography.
-- Michael Polanyi -
Science is the topography of ignorance.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes -
Learn the true topography; the monstrous and wonderful archetypes are not inside you, not inside your consciousness; you are inside them, trapped and howling to get out
-- R. A. Lafferty -
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In battle, topography is fate.
-- Rick AtkinsonSource : Rick Atkinson (2007). “An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy”, p.2, Macmillan
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Science is the topography of ignorance.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.