Elements Quote by Amir Alexander

Of the properties of mathematics, as a language, the most peculiar one is that by playing formal games with an input mathematical text, one…

— IU?. I. Manin

There is (gentle reader) nothing (the works of God only set apart) which so much beautifies and adorns the soul and mind of man…

— John Dee

The effort of the economist is to "see," to picture the interplay of economic elements. The more clearly cut these elements appear in his…

— Irving Fisher

The art of the colorist has in some ways elements of mathematics and music.

— Paul Signac

Geometry, which should only obey Physics, when united with it sometimes commands it. If it happens that the question which we wish to examine…

— Jean le Rond d'Alembert

The proliferation of right-to-carry laws throughout the states has drawn plaintive complaints from the criminal element. They feel that it makes their profession too…

— Jeff Cooper

I don't think that writing, real writing, has much to do with affirming belief--if anything it causes rifts and gaps in belief which make…

— Brian Evenson

Intelligence is a separate gift, for the benefit of students, so that they may think of themselves as intellectual and not very intelligent, or…

— Maya Angelou

Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual…

— Kenneth Branagh

I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement…

— Edward Hopper

I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.

— Trudi Canavan

I avoided nudity unless a film couldn't be told without those scenes. If you look at my films, few of them have that element,…

— Greta Scacchi