A Quote by Anatole France

A dictionary is merely the universe arranged in alphabetical order.

Anatole France

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Anatole France
French - Novelist
April 16, 1844 - October 12, 1924

A 'philosophical dictionary' is not a dictionary of philosophy that you use to look up obscure thinkers or recondite terms. It is a collection of brief and pithy essays on diverse topics, informed by one vision, and usually arranged in alphabetical order.

Ian Hacking

Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.

Anatole France

My books and records are arranged according to subject, and within each subject, they're alphabetical by author or artist. The music tapes are alphabetical and the performance tapes are in chronological order.I like to control my environment, because I feel if I have my physical space in order, then I'm free to dream.

George Carlin

Alphabetical order had to be invented to help people organize the first dictionaries. On the other hand, we may have reached a point where alphabetical order has gone obsolete. Wikipedia is ostensibly in alphabetical order, but, when you think about it, it's not in any order at all. You use a search engine to get into it.

James Gleick

Dictionary - opinion expressed as truth in alphabetical order.

John Ralston Saul

Dictionary: Opinion presented as truth in alphabetical order.

John Ralston Saul

The other day, I noticed I'd arranged my spices in alphabetical order when I was on the phone, without even realizing, and when I was a kid I was constantly cleaning and organizing things - my toys, my sister's cosmetics.

Jayma Mays

Hungry Joe collected lists of fatal diseases and arranged them in alphabetical order so that he could put his finger without delay on any one he wanted to worry about.

Joseph Heller

Someone with an obsession for arranging things in alphabetical order was an abcedist, whereas someone with an obsession for arranging them in reverse alphabetical order was a zyxedist.

Walter Moers

In an expanding universe, order is not really order, but merely the difference between the actual entropy exhibited and the maximum entropy possible.

Kim Stanley Robinson

I didn't know the draft was in alphabetical order.

Henrik Zetterberg

Okay everybody, line up in alphabetical order according to your height.

Casey Stengel

By the grace of AEC, BNL, God, Green and Hayworth (alphabetical order), we should see neutrinos.

Leon M. Lederman

I also wanted remembering the past relevant to the present. Some people wanted me to put the names in alphabetical order. I wanted them in chronological order so that a veteran could find his time within the panel. It's like a thread of life.