 | Philip J. Davis - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 316 pages
...theorem struck me still as a pretty one, but inconsequential, of no practical use to anyone. Consider the lilies of the field; they toil not, neither do they spin. Well, Problem 44 was a mathematical lily. It was not the key to the atoms or the galaxies or biological... | |
 | Madame de Staël (Anne-Louise-Germaine) - Fiction - 1998 - 470 pages
...existence. One is less afraid of abandoning oneself to nature, to that nature of whom the Creator has said, "the lilies of the field, they toil not neither do they spin, and yet what royal robes can equal the splendour with which I have clothed these flowers!" '* Oswald... | |
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Consider the lilies of the field; they toil not, neither do they spin: yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 
