Discontinuity Quotes

18 quotes by 18 authors

Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity… — Gregory Bateson
I try to get a vision of the future, and then I try to figure out where the discontinuities are. — Nolan Bushnell
You can't really discover the most interesting conflicts and problems in a subject until you've tried to write about them. At that point, one discovers… — Anthony F. C. Wallace
How strange it would be if the final theory were to be discovered in our lifetimes! The discovery of the final laws of nature will… — Steven Weinberg
...a discontinuity, like a vacuum, is abhorred by nature. — Harold Hotelling
I don't do match cuts really. That's a ridiculous thing to say - I do. But we always explore how we can propel a scene,… — Sally Menke
We experience life as a continuity, and only after it falls away, after it becomes the past, do we see its discontinuities. The past, if… — Teju Cole
Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live. — Mary Catherine Bateson
The real challenge in crafting strategy lies in detecting subtle discontinuities that may undermine a business in the future. And for that there is no… — Henry Mintzberg
Wherever we look at the living biota â€¦ discontinuities are overwhelmingly frequentâ€¦The discontinuities are even more striking in the fossil record. New species usually appear… — Ernst Mayr
The draw by stalemate looks like a spot of discontinuity in the otherwise harmonious universe of values. To save a game by letting yourself be… — Mihail Marin
Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography. For autobiography has to do with time, with sequence and what makes up the… — Walter Benjamin
A mystic is anyone who has the gnawing suspicion that the apparent discord, brokenness, contradictions and discontinuities that assault us every day might conceal a… — Lawrence Kushner
The sound is the key; audiences will accept visual discontinuity much more easily than they'll accept jumps in the sound. If the track makes sense,… — Paul Hirsch
Life is not an orderly progression, self-contained like a musical scale or a quadratic equation... If one is to record one's life truthfully, one must… — Leonard Woolf
I chop and change between what is called 'work' and what is called 'recreation.' There are no discontinuities in my day. I only play tennis… — David Deutsch
A lone peak of high point is a natural focal point in the landscape, something by which both travelers and local orient themselves. In the… — Rebecca Solnit
Certainly, it may bring to light such a deeper knowledge of the structure of matter as to constitute a veritable discontinuity in the progress of… — Ernest Lawrence

Who Wrote These Discontinuity Quotes

18 authors contributed a total of 18 Discontinuity Quotes as follows: