The laws of Nature are written in the language of mathematics...the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
My forms are not abstractions of things in the real world. They're also not symbols. I would say that my job is… — Caio Fonseca Copy Share Image
A book is an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I don't know why people were so upset with me. Prince got his own symbol. I just wanted to adopt the handicap… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
I couldn't deal with anything. I wasn't enjoying what I was doing because of the situation. My Paiste rep, a symbol company,… — Charlie Benante Copy Share Image
'The green beret' is again becoming a symbol of excellence, a badge of courage, a mark of distinction in the fight for… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The Christian faith allows us to see further and deeper, to appreciate that nature is studded with signs, radiant with reminders, and… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
A book is a physical object in a world of physical objects. It is a set of dead symbols. And then the… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
That’s what the human brain is there for—to turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols. Sometimes the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“We can express our feelings regarding the world around us either by poetic or by descriptive means. I prefer to express myself… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
The monogram of our national initials, which is the symbol for our monetary unit, the dollar, is almost as frequently conjoined to… — Henry R. Towne Copy Share Image
“People are going to come into your life, and God is going to use them to help you. To them you’re insignificant… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Today's Gypsies, who have lived in Prague for only two generations, light a ritual fire wherever they work, a nomads' fire crackling… — Bohumil Hrabal Copy Share Image
All our surest statements about the nature of the world are mathematical statements, yet we do not know what mathematics "is"... and… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
Wherever wolves run free, indigenous cultures have revered them as symbols of loyalty, free will, fearlessness and unity. But wolves haven't had… — Zoe Helene Copy Share Image
Many older wealthy families have learned to instill a sense of public service in their offspring. But newly affluent middle-classparents have not… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
Did you know that I almost called the magazine Stag Party and the symbol was originally going to be a stag? I… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
“Gratitude was never meant to be an excuse for giving up on the obstacles God has put before you. Some of the… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I often told the fanatics of realism that there is no such thing as realism in art: it only exists in the… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
I saw through to the last sign and symbol, but I could not read her face. I could see only the eyes… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Woman is the symbol to man of the uncleanness of bodily existence, of which he purifies himself by putting her to noble… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
I was in Asia and people asked me about being considered sex symbol. I don't know if that's good or not, because… — Bai Ling Copy Share Image
Removing religious symbols from public places is not neutrality. On the contrary, it sends a highly negative message - that religion is… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
All our lives are symbols. Everything we do is part of a pattern we have at least some say in. The strong… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
I think math is a hugely creative field, because there are some very well-defined operations that you have to work within. You… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
My commitment to the Republican movement was pure and simply patriotism, a love of Australia... a desire or passion that all of… — Malcolm Turnbull Copy Share Image
Black men and women who refuse to live under oppression are dangerous to white society because they become symbols of hope to… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
The dot was introduced as a symbol for multiplication by Leibniz. On July 29, 1698, he wrote in a letter to Johann… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Back in my heyday, when I was out on the streets - I'm engaged now, about to get married - but before… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
Bike is the most democratic transport vehicle. Bike is the most daring, challenging as it gives its owner the tempting feeling of… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and… — John Thune Copy Share Image
A solitary ascetic is a symbol of the most cowardly egotism; a hermit who flees from his brothers instead of helping them… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
I do not see why the loss of faith in the known image and symbol in our time should be celebrated as… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
Realities disguised as symbols are, for me, new realities that are immeasurably preferable. I make an effort to take them at their… — Claude Cahun Copy Share Image
No free people can lose their liberties while they are jealous of liberty. But the liberties of the freest people are in… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Perhaps you have seen me. I know well, my purpose was merely that of a symbol, 'equals', 'times'... ; but what is… — Albert Goldbarth Copy Share Image
The hijab, or sikh turban, or Jewish skullcap are all explicit symbols, but they do not represent a threat or affront to… — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
We don't need to invest all of our faith in every concept, in every symbol, in every opinion that forms the totality… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
[Culture] denotes an historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied in symbols, a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms, by means… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the… — John Wesley Powell Copy Share Image
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