Finite Quotes · Page 13

The progress of mathematics can be viewed as progress from the infinite to the finite.

— Gian-Carlo Rota

Anyone who believes in indefinite growth on a physically finite planet is either mad or an economist

— David Attenborough

So he that despairs, limits an Infinite Power to a Finite Apprehension, and measures Providence by his own little, contracted Model.

— Robert South

According to Zen philosophy each human being has two minds, a finite mind and an infinite mind.

— Frederick Lenz

you and I have good enough minds to know how very limited and finite they really are. The naked intellect is an…

— Madeleine L'Engle

I can pretty much say all of us know when 'Downton' is going to end. This is a show with a finite…

— Brendan Coyle

Just as fossil fuels from conventional sources are finite and are becoming depleted, those from difficult sources will also run out. If…

— David Suzuki

Prosperity consists in our ability to flourish as human beings - within the ecological limits of a finite planet. The challenge for…

— Tim Jackson

There is something more awful in happiness than in sorrow--the latter being earthly and finite, the former composed of the substance and…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Sadly, the things that we have set out as being worth striving for are not ultimately the things that satisfy human longings.…

— Desmond Tutu

Time is finite and the demands of the imagination and also the demands of the world are infinite, so sort of brokering…

— Emily Barton

Our self (Soul), as a form of God's joy, is deathless. For his joy is amritham, eternal bliss. We know that the…

— Rabindranath Tagore

Even the standard example of ancient nonsense - the debate about angels on pinheads - makes sense once you realize that theologians…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Mathematics has been called the science of the infinite. Indeed, the mathematician invents finite constructions by which questions are decided that by…

— Hermann Weyl

I haven't seen any claim that Piraha lacks recursion, that is, that there are a finite number of sentences or sentence frames.…

— Noam Chomsky

Without evading the grimness of life in much of modern Africa, one can recognize that this continent is not yet sick as…

— Dervla Murphy

In love, at one of its poles you find the personal, and at the other the impersonal. At one you have the…

— Rabindranath Tagore

The true value of the Christian religion rests, not upon speculative views of the Creator, which must necessarily be different in each…

— Charles Babbage

I feel that I'm a spiritual person in that I feel like telling stories is a spiritual exercise and I think that…

— Holly Hunter

While most of those who hold that the whole heaven is finite say that the earth lies at the center, the philosophers…

— Aristotle

Physically, the heart is an organ that keeps us alive through a coordinated network of cells beating together. Spiritually, the heart is…

— Anodea Judith

The trouble is that we do not have the power of God in a full manifestation because of our finite thoughts, but…

— Smith Wigglesworth

We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The notion that there's finite spectrum is mostly wrong.

— Martin Cooper

Our lives are composed of a finite set of moments that we choose how to spend.

— John Green

I experience transcendence when something infinite reminds me I am finite.

— James MacDonald

The problem with a cost reduction strategy is that there is a finite limit.You can only get to zero.

— Eliyahu Goldratt

If the Absolute becomes limited by the mind, It is no more Absolute; It has become finite.

— Swami Vivekananda

Life is short, youth is finite, and opportunities endless. Have you found the intersection of your passion and the potential for world-shaping…

— Justin Rosenstein

I'm here, and I know that it's finite; I know that I'm not going to always be here.

— Gary Kraftsow

Time is our most finite commodity, therefore our most valuable, and I respect other peoples' time.

— Nancy Pelosi

Computers are only capable of a certain kind of randomness because computers are finite devices.

— Tristan Perich

We are many, many selves. We're not just a finite being. The selves don't necessarily speak in words. But they are you.

— Frederick Lenz

Death is simply a change in perception. It is not an end to perception as a finite being.

— Frederick Lenz

But let us remember that we are dealing with infinities and indivisibles both of which transcend our finite understanding, the former on…

— Galileo Galilei

Any language is necessarily a finite system applied with different degrees of creativity to an infinite variety of situations, and most of…

— David Lodge

I take a sun bath and listen to the hours, formulating, and disintegrating under the pines, and smell the resiny hardihood of…

— Zelda Fitzgerald

Euclid manages to obtain a rigorous proof without ever dealing with infinity, by reducing the problem [of the infinitude of primes] to…

— Lucio Russo

The disciple simply burns his boats and goes ahead. He is called out... The old life is left behind, and completely surrendered.…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

All the analysis of infinite reality which the finite human mind can conduct rests on the tacit assumption that only a finite…

— Max Weber