The assumption that the square of a unit vector is positive unity leads to an algebra whose characteristic quantities are non-associative. — Cargill Gilston Knott Copy Share Image
... Tal accepted absolutely all the world champion's conditions with a smile, taking away a very important psychological trump card from him… — Gennadi Sosonko Copy Share Image
The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
The dreadful cocksureness that is characteristic of scientists in bulk is not only quite foreign to the spirit of true science, it… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
I am proud to say that the Federalist Society was founded in part at the University of Chicago, and one of its… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
We Can Most Safely Achieve Truly Universal Tolerance When We Respect That Which Is Characteristic In The Individual And In Nations, Clinging,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In my opinion, the true pioneers are those artists who make manifest in their works the new content, the determining characteristics of… — Mikhail Sholokhov Copy Share Image
I have great confidence in human curiosity - even though I don't know what curiosity is from a biological point of view.… — John Medina Copy Share Image
The study of dreams may be considered the most trustworthy method of investigating deep mental processes. Now dreams occurring in traumatic neuroses… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The first characteristic of Rossini's music is speed - a speed which removes from the soul all the sombre emotions that are… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Each particular being, in its individuality, its concrete nature and entity, with all its own characteristics and its private qualities and its… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
One of the defining characteristics or difference between today's illegal immigration and the immigration of old is the immigrants of the late… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The power of understanding symbols, i.e. of regarding everything about a sense-datum as irrelevant except a certain form that it embodies, is… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
In this generation, along with the dominating traits, the recessive ones also reappear, their individuality fully revealed, and they do so in… — Gregor Mendel Copy Share Image
Most of the characteristics which make for success in writing are precisely those which we are all taught to repress ... the… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
We see people of kindness, compassion, and possibly even faith being told, "Because of a characteristic with which you were born, you… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Well, rather than to give you my impression on Los Angeles, per se, my older sister's husband is and American, therefore I… — Nobuo Uematsu Copy Share Image
The normal is what you find but rarely. The normal is an ideal. It is a picture that one fabricates of the… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The gnosis of God is intermediate between immoderation, which is ascribing human characteristics to God, and negligence, which is denying any attributes… — Ibn Ata Allah Copy Share Image
The chief characteristics of the [liberal] attitude are human sympathy, a receptivity to change, and a scientific willingness to follow reason rather… — Chester Bowles Copy Share Image
Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good. Pilots naturally fly the craft in such a… — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
Morale - the will to win, the fighting heart - are the honored hallmarks of the football coach and player. Likewise, they… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
It is a strange fact, characteristic of the incomplete state of our current knowledge, that totally opposite conclusions are drawn about prehistoric… — Alfred Wegener Copy Share Image
James Watt was equally distinguished as a natural philosopher and chemist; his inventions demonstrate his profound knowledge of those sciences, and that… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
A characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we don't know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often… — Tom Glazer Copy Share Image
It was the first and most striking characteristic of Socrates never to become heated in discourse, never to utter an injurious or… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
There is no need to pose for anything - you just walk straight and strong and be clear. We are all born… — Bibhu Mohapatra Copy Share Image
The level of potential physical productivity of a society depends on both the development of the intellect of its members, and a… — Robert Trout Copy Share Image
There are physical characteristics which are inherited. These include things like good looks, high intelligence, physical coordination. These attributes contribute to success… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
Yellow is the brightest and lightest of all colors, and this brilliance is its most noticeable characteristic, which accounts for the way… — Michael Freeman Copy Share Image
There are many qualities that make a great leader. But having strong beliefs, being able to stick with them through popular and… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
The main thing that's missing in energy is an incentive to create things that are zero-CO2-emitting and that have the right scale… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humor, discipline, courage, self sufficieny and confidence. — James Fisher Copy Share Image
Clark Kent is how Superman views us. And what are the characteristics of Clark Kent. He's weak... he's unsure of himself... he's… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
Heredity, to our understanding is not capable of giving to this illness (paraphilia) its characteristic form ... Heredity invents nothing, creates nothing… — Alfred Binet Copy Share Image
I have tried to show as clearly as possible that the very characteristics and weaknesses of temperament with which we were born...can… — Hannah Hurnard Copy Share Image
Altogether it will be found that a quiet life is characteristic of great men, and that their pleasures have not been of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I think architects tend to believe that they can almost do anything, which is a wonderful characteristic, but in some cases you… — Rafael Vinoly Copy Share Image
Everyone is concerned about his niche, his name, and wants to adapt the concept to so-called national characteristics. But at the end… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image