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41 " [Henry Cavendish] fixed the weight of the earth; he established the proportions of the constituents of the air; he occupied himself with the quantitative study of the laws of heat; and lastly, he demonstrated the nature of water and determined its volumetric composition. Earth, air, fire, and water—each and all came within the range of his observations. "
― , History of Chemistry
42 " A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body. "
43 " Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings. "
44 " The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reached through its proportions, and the proportions cost nothing. In fact, most of them are proportions among things, not the things themselves. Art is almost always a question of proportions. "
45 " There's a technicality to designing and wearing hats. A hat is balancing the proportions of your face it's like architecture or mathematics. "
46 " I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination. "
