Concepts Quote by Carl Sagan Download Open image “The simplest thought, like the concept of the number one, has an elaborate logical underpinning.” — Carl Sagan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Concepts Inspirational Logical Mathematics Numbers Philosophy of Mind Simplest
“The assumption that numbers and mathematical or logical laws are mental is due to the even more widespread notion that only particular sensible entities… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I love the idea of numerology, but I don't really believe in it. But I like thinking about what numbers convey. — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
The truth is that everything is One, and this of course is not a numerical one. — Philip Kapleau Copy Share Image
Once we know the number one, we believe that we know the number two, because one plus one equals two. We forget that first… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
“All numbers in logic must be capable of justification. Or rather it must become plain that there are no numbers in logic. … — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“The number two, he thought, was an ominous number. Two is a reflection or duplication of one, the most perfect of the natural numbers. Two is all echo and counterpoise; two is the beginning of multiplicity, the way the universal oneness differentiates itself and breaks apart into strings and quarks and photons, all the separate and component pieces of life.… — David Zindell Copy Share
“In the mind of an ordinary, 1+1 = 2; but, in the mind of an extraordinary, 1+ 1 = 10.” — Joey Lawsin Copy Share Image
I think putting numbers together into a coherent framework always seemed to me to be what really matters. — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
“But beyond these joys, the look and action of numbers, is what they represent. [...] Numbers are an invention of the human mind, and… — P. Carey Reid Copy Share Image
For mathematics, even to the logical forms in which it moves, is entirely dependent on the concept of natural number. — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
Number is different from quantity. This difference is basic for any sort of theorizing in behavioral science, any sort of imagining of what goes… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Telepathy’ literally means to feel at a distance, just as ‘telephone’ is to hear at a distance and ‘television’ is to see at a… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“On the scale of worlds—to say nothing of stars or galaxies—humans are inconsequential, a thin film of life on an obscure and solitary lump… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
In our time, we have sifted the sands of Mars, we have established a presence there, we have fulfilled a century of dreams! — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“[ When a religious couple wrote to Sagan about fulfilled prophecies, he wrote back in May 1996 :] If ‘fulfilled prophecy’ is your criterion,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We live on a hunk of rock and metal that circles a humdrum star that is one of 400 billion other stars that make… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
A tiny blue dot set in a sunbeam. Here it is. That's where we live. That's home. We humans are one species and this… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Capability is just a concept of what is it we're looking at. Now how far we can go along that and what new capabilities… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Our concept of a family holiday was going to a guest house in the Lake district or Wales where walking was part of the… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
We do not want to be reminded that it is we, the indigenous people, who are poor and exploited in the land of our… — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
The whole concept of stage fright is fascinating. Actors get stage fright, but they wouldn't be on the stage in the first place if… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
I do like talking with friends about big concepts, you know, the stuff that will ruin a party. To me, the party hasn't begun… — James Mercer Copy Share Image
You imagine that I look back on my life's work with calm satisfaction. But from nearby it looks quite different. There is not a… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
For a physicist mathematics is not just a tool by means of which phenomena can be calculated, it is the main source of concepts… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
One of the most powerful concepts, one which is a sure cure for lack of confidence, is the thought that God is with you… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts. — Carl Schmitt Copy Share Image
If you are trying to live a life in accordance with the Bible, the concept and call to justice are inescapable. We do justice… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
So many times we come to Jesus in worship and ask Him for things that He already IS and has already done... What a… — Christy Nockels Copy Share Image