Innocence could be considered a discrete state of mind.

“The state's case against Smith, however, did claim to speak to his actual guilt or innocence, and it has to be considered carefully. The…

— Sebastian Junger

“if physics is much simpler to describe under the assumption that space is discrete, rather than continuous, is not this fact itself a strong…

— Lee Smolin

The full beauty of the subject of generating functions emerges only from tuning in on both channels: the discrete and the continuous.

— Herbert Wilf

The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds…

— William James

Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation. Pay attention to everything in the world as if it's alive. Realize…

— David Whyte

Time, among all concepts in the world of physics, puts up the greatest resistance to being dethroned from ideal continuum to the world of…

— John Archibald Wheeler

Know what makes a sentence more than a random list, practice constructing sentences and explaining what you have done, and you will know how…

— Stanley Fish

Life is a constant creation. It is a moment by moment, instant by instant creation. I don’t mean by this that it is a…

— Albert Low

With ordinary men the moments which are united in a close continuity out of the original discrete multiplicity are very few, and the course…

— Otto Weininger

The mastery of one's phonemes may be compared to the violinist's mastery of fingering. The violin string lends itself to a continuous gradation of…

— Willard Van Orman Quine

I have no faith in our hypocritical, false, hysterical, uneducated and lazy intelligentsia when they suffer and complain: their oppression comes from within. I…

— Anton Chekhov

A discrete series is a series of terms each of which is empirically derived, each one of which is empirically true. And this is…

— George Oppen

Chi-Os were ideal partners for all occasions. They were discrete, desirable, tactful, polite, and fun... Every mom dreamed of her son coming home with…

— David Letterman

The books remind us that way down deep in our hearts, part of us knows that we are creatures of light and we cannot…

— Richard Bach

Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.

— A. Bartlett Giamatti