The goal of a definition is to introduce a mathematical object. The goal of a theorem is to state some of its… — IU?. I. Manin Copy Share Image
For a long time the objects that mathematicians dealt with were mostly ill-defined; one believed one knew them, but one represented them… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
It is natural to man to regard himself as the object of the creation, and to think of all things in relation… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The French constitute the most brilliant and the most dangerous nation in Europe and the best qualified in turn to become an… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
More than 10,000 sightings have been reported, the majority of which cannot be accounted for by any 'scientific' explanation. . .I am… — Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding Copy Share Image
The reason we might lose love is because we are always looking outside of us, thinking that the object or action of… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject. — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
Maxims and aphorisms, let us remember that wisdom is the true salt of literature, and the books that are most nourishing are… — John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn Copy Share Image
It was a very proper answer to him who asked why any map should be delighted with beauty, that it was a… — Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon Copy Share Image
Luxury, or a refinement on the pleasures and conveniences of life, had long been supposed the source of every corruption in government,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
To be the object of somebody's obsession is a really awful feeling when you can't return it. — Tippi Hedren Copy Share Image
A man with a talent does what is expected of him, makes his way, constructs, is an engineer, a composer, a builder… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I loved the old government in 1861. I loved the old Constitution yet. I think it is the best government in the… — Nathan Bedford Forrest Copy Share Image
When illiberal feminists aren't delegitimizing female dissenters from their worldview as fake women, they are portraying them in such a hyper-sexualized way… — Kirsten Powers Copy Share Image
He who studies it [Nature] has continually the exquisite pleasure of discerning or half discerning and divining laws; regularities glimmer through an… — John Robert Seeley Copy Share Image
In football the object is for the quarterback, also known as the field general, to be on target with his aerial assault,… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Yet I'm making a book and I'm going to care immensely about what words get bound in the pages, and I want… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Why is it, I wonder, that anyone who displays superior athletic ability is an object of admiration to his classmates, while one… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Those magicians who object to the use of blood, have endeavored to replace it with incense. But, the bloody sacrifice, though more… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Materialism, which gives priority to material needs and objects, is obviously the opposite of spirituality — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
At my age, and in my circumstances, what sinister object, or personal emolument had I to seek after, in this life? The… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I travel, work, suffer my weak health, meet with a thousand difficulties, but all these are nothing, for this world is so… — Frances Xavier Cabrini Copy Share Image
Some will object that the Law is divine and holy. Let it be divine and holy. The Law has no right to… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
Having rationally endeavored to control nature, is he not now becoming the slave of the objects which he makes? — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
Is it really that much better to make friends with animals before you kill them than to treat them as nameless, faceless… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
The provision of the Constitution giving the war making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons:… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .The success of a work of art, to my mind, may… — Henry James Copy Share Image
I have been very fortunate in worldly matters; many men have worked much harder, and not succeeded half so well; but I… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Meditation means to be free from all phenomena and calmness means to be internally unperturbed. There will be calmness when one is… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women seetherelationship between objects? It is an extra dimension of feeling… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Women become the objects of rules; they are repressed and lose their rights in the name of religion, or they lose their… — Okky Madasari Copy Share Image
Responsibility, in order to be reasonable, must be limited to objects within the power of the responsible party, and in order to… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The common people do not accurately adapt their thoughts to objects; nor, secondly, do they accurately adapt their words to their thoughts;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When the Supreme Court says baseball isn't run like a business, everybody jumps up and down with joy. When I say the… — Bill Veeck Copy Share Image
The clarification of visual forms and their organization in integrated patterns as well as the attribution of such forms to suitable objects… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
A fiction which is designed to inculcate an object wholly alien to the imagination sins against the first law of art; and… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
I am inclined to say that the personal attendance and intervention of women in election proceedings, even apart from any suspicion of… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
Labor, being itself a commodity, is measured as such by the labor time needed to produce the labor-commodity. And what is needed… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image