It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions. — Rudolf Carnap Copy Share Image
It is absolutely necessary... for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders. — George Washington Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
(knitting while on a motorcycle) "For several years she knitted in secret (my father would not approve; she was to concentrate on… — Elizabeth Zimmermann Copy Share Image
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema.… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
You can draw power from everything in your life. In order to do that, everything has to be set up in a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A real Christian in an odd number anyway. He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen, talks familiarly every… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do conscientiously and sincerely believe that the Order of Freemasonry, if not the greatest, is one of the greatest moral and… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
I mean those people who are interested in good government will certainly contribute in order to make certain there's some counter-balance to… — Stephen Breyer Copy Share Image
The surprise of an army is now next to an impossibility. ... Prearranged surprises are rare and difficult because in order to… — Antoine-Henri Jomini Copy Share Image
Almost everywhere we find . . . the use of various coercive measures, to rid ourselves as quickly as possible of the… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
I think I need the demons in order to write, but the demons have gone. It bothers me a lot. I've tried… — Brian Wilson Copy Share Image
Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
We do not claim that punning is legitimate wit. Wit consists in combination of ideas, punning in combination of words only. We… — Harriet Hosmer Copy Share Image
Every woman I have ever loved has left her print upon me, where I loved some invaluable piece of myself apart from… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
The further forward we go, the further back we have to explore in order to go forward again. — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
I think the public doesn't understand that one of the reasons I haven't stood up for myself is because in order to… — Paula Broadwell Copy Share Image
The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time. — Joe Girard Copy Share Image
Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image