Formalism is music that people don't understand at first hearing. — Sergei Prokofiev Copy Share Image
Before economics can progress, it must abandon its suicidal formalism. — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
“A good practice carried to an extreme and worked in accordance with the letter of the law becomes a positive evil.” — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Formalism, in opting for the functional mode making possible precise quantitative determinations within a closed system of variables, forgoes the possibility of… — Ludwig Lachmann Copy Share Image
New formalism is writing with language as flow, like the flow from a dam, running through a desert that has had no… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Form as a goal always ends in formalism. For this striving is directed not towards an inside, but towards an outside. But… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
But it is certainly not possible to insist on one hand that the formalism is complete and to insist on the other… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Nature allows only experimental situations to occur which can be described within the framework of the formalism of quantum mechanics — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
On foundations we believe in the reality of mathematics, but of course, when philosophers attack us with their paradoxes, we rush to… — Jean Dieudonne Copy Share Image
Most of my formal choices are a combination of everything I learned about form - semiotics, linguistics, and the history of style… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
The rejection of all abstract formalism. Materialism reminds every science of its real source: the world men transform. No science can, whether… — Louis Althusser Copy Share Image
Art has a double visage: it looks before and after. Romance is its forward-looking face. The germ of growth is in romanticism.… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
“To the average mathematician who merely wants to know his work is securely based, the most appealing choice is to avoid difficulties… — Paul Joseph Cohen Copy Share Image
“What exactly is the new verse movement? The New Verse Movement of the 1910's was to make poetry relevant again by immersing… — R.M. Engelhardt Copy Share Image
“But there is yet time to change our ways. Give up all those old discussions, old fights about things which are meaningless,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
