Because of mathematics precise, formal character, mathematical arguments remain sound even when they are long and complex. In contast, common sense arguments… — Jacob T. Schwartz Copy Share Image
All distinctions of birth or of rank have been abolished. All citizens, whether native or adopted, are placed upon terms of precise… — James K. Polk Copy Share Image
I believe that we learn by practice... it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
I do not think of literature as something confessional or therapeutic. I make sentences in order to be precise about experiences and… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
I can't remember coming across a more precise evocation of innocence lost since Golding's The Lord of the Flies. With The Death… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
We believe that man's value - as every creature's value, ultimately - lies not in the mere intellect but in the spirit:… — Savitri Devi Copy Share Image
An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward, when we arrive atthe… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When I was in college my girl got me a job at the doctor's office she was working at. I was a… — J. Cole Copy Share Image
You say men ought to be hung for the way they are executing the law; I say the way it is being… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Dr. Peter Boghossian’s A Manual for Creating Atheists is a precise, passionate, compassionate and brilliantly reasoned work that will illuminate any and… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
I gained in experience with every plane shot down, and now was able to fire in a calm, deliberate manner. Each attack… — John Trevor Godfrey Copy Share Image
We have crossed the boundary that lies between Republic and Empire. If you ask when, the answer is that you cannot make… — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
What will most certainly happen is that there will be very clear and full communication between the government and independents and minor… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
Absolute, true, and mathematical time, in and of itself and of its own nature, without reference to anything external, flows uniformly and… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
A professor was telling students about his colleagues class. Students in the other class had taken to tossing erasers at the clock.… — Vicki Davis Copy Share Image
When the first mechanical clocks were invented, marking off time in crisp, regular intervals, it must have surprised people to discover that… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
To describe the animate life of particular things is simply the most precise and parsimonious way to articulate the things as we… — David Abram Copy Share Image
Trying to capture the physicists' precise mathematical description of the quantum world with our crude words and mental images is like playing… — George Johnson Copy Share Image
Sometimes I try to concentrate on the story I would like to write, and I realize that what interests me is something… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I try to simplify things for the children. For instance, [I arrange] for them to have almost no dialogue, or to somehow… — Lucile Hadzihalilovic Copy Share Image
In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it's all about improvisation,… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
The beginning is never the clear, precise end of a thread, the beginning is a long, painfully slow process that requires time… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
I wanted to feel that precision and control and then try to apply it to tele. That's what I've looked for in… — Paul Parker Copy Share Image
Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
Freedom of the press, or, to be more precise, the benefit of freedom of the press, belongs to everyone – to the… — Arthur Hays Sulzberger Copy Share Image
We do not know the precise time of the Second Coming of the Savior, but we do know that we are living… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
To make of human affairs a coherent, precise, predictable whole one must ignore or suppress man as he really is. It is… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Everything we did in the 1960s was designed to fission, to weaken faith in and conformity to the 1950s social order. Our… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
A book, like a person, has its fortunes with one; is lucky or unlucky in the precise moment of its falling in… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
A standard saying among fly fishermen is that trout spend anywhere from 80 to 90 percent of their time feeding below the… — Ed Engle Copy Share Image
The process of philosophizing, to my mind, consists mainly in passing from those obvious, vague, ambiguous things, that we feel quite sure… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The unlucky hand dealt to clear and precise writers is that people assume they are superficial and so do not go to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I don't actually like blocking actors. I prefer giving actors freedom. They don't have to step on a precise mark with me.… — Jose Padilha Copy Share Image
I don't know that there were any rules for documentary photography. As a matter of fact, I don't think the term was… — Jack Delano Copy Share Image
It is difficult even to attach a precise meaning to the term "scientific truth." So different is the meaning of the word… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Can theology give to the mind the ineffable boon of conceiving that which no man is in a capacity to comprehend? Can… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
The term "state socialism" is not precise. Under this term many understand an order under which a certain part of the wealth,… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
Seeing then that truth consisteth in the right ordering of names in our affirmations, a man that seeketh precise truth, had need… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Mathematics is entirely free in its development, and its concepts are only linked by the necessity of being consistent, and are co-ordinated… — Georg Cantor Copy Share Image