Imagination leaps the chasms, minimizes the difficulties, passes from the possible to the certain, from the "may have been" to the "must have been" and to "it was so," and, fascinated with the completeness of its scheme, commences to denounce and revile as ignorant and unscientific all that would, calmly appeal to evidence, and confess ignorance, or at least a suspended judgment, in any stage where the evidence is negative or incomplete.
"Creation and Its Records"
B.H. Baden-Powell
By the elimination of complicated figuring, it minimizes the opportunity for mistake, and delay at the end of the rubber.
"Auction of To-day"
Milton C. Work
Thorough preparation, moreover, minimizes the likelihood of routine, the monotony of which is always deadening.
"Principles of Teaching"
Adam S. Bennion