An accomplished mathematician, i.e. a most wretched orator. Isaac Barrow
The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a Theatrical Show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that; i.e. all the Glory of it. John Adams
By an object, I mean anything that we can think, i.e. anything we can talk about. Charles Sanders Peirce
For a woman, the typical danger emanating from the unconscious comes from above, from the "spiritual" sphere personified by the animus, whereas for a man it comes from the chthonic realm of the "world and woman," i.e., the anima projected on to the world. Carl Jung
Absolute time would exist in a causal structure for which the concept indeterminate as to time order lends to a unique simultaneity, i.e., for which there is no finite interval of time between the departure and return of a first-signal... Hans Reichenbach
Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval. Marshall McLuhan