Epiphany Quotes

120 Epiphany quotes by 107 unique authors

My epiphany came in that police cell: I realized I was about to lose everything and it didn't bother me, not in the slightest. I'd… — David Millar
Transcendental Meditation gives you what you need, when you need it. It's literally changed my life. Some of the clearest ideas or epiphanies I've had… — Hugh Jackman
I had at some point the epiphany that if I wanted to be a writer, maybe I should stop thinking about writing, or stop writing… — Matt Fraction
Change is an action not just an epiphany! — Garrison Wynn
Nature poets can't walk across the backyard without tripping over an epiphany. — Christian Wiman
Well, a sort of epiphany: I was in a great band. And it's very cool to be at 53 and realise that when you were… — Bob Geldof
The transfinite numbers are in a certain sense themselves new irrationalities and in fact in my opinion the best method of defining the finite irrational… — Georg Cantor
What I assert and believe to have demonstrated in this and earlier works is that following the finite there is a transfinite (which one could… — Georg Cantor
I entertain no doubts as to the truths of the tranfinites, which I recognized with God's help and which, in their diversity, I have studied… — Georg Cantor
Well, part of it is a longstanding belief - it's been in our education establishment at least since the 1930s - that somehow children should… — Lynne Cheney
Linear programming can be viewed as part of a great revolutionary development which has given mankind the ability to state general goals and to lay… — George Dantzig
The rainbow is such a remarkable phenomenon of nature, and its cause has been so meticulously sought after by inquiring minds throughout the ages, that… — Rene Descartes
It has been said that the three great develpments in twentieth century science are relativity, quantum mechanics, and chaos. That strikes me the same as… — Robert L. Devaney
We cannot think of ourselves save as to some extent social being. Hence, we cannot separate the idea of ourselves and our own good from… — John Dewey
It was not until some weeks later that I realized there is no need to restrict oneself to 2 by 2 matrices. One could go… — Paul Dirac
[On Cantor's work:] The finest product of mathematical genius and one of the supreme achievements of purely intellectual human activity. — David Hilbert
Analysis does not owe its really significant successes of the last century to any mysterious use of sqrt(-1), but to the quite natural circumstances that… — Leopold Kronecker
I am intentionally avoiding the standard term which, by the way, did not exist in Euler's time. One of the ugliest outgrowths of the "new… — George Polya
In the "commentatio" (note presented to the Russian Academy) in which his theorem on polyhedra (on the number of faces, edges and vertices) was first… — George Polya
Arithmetic starts with the integers and proceeds by successively enlarging the number system by rational and negative numbers, irrational numbers, etc... But the next quite… — Abraham Robinson
The solution of the difficulties which formerly surrounded the mathematical infinite is probably the greatest achievement of which our age has to boast. — Bertrand Russell
In the future, as in the past, the great ideas [of mathematics] must be simplifying ideas, the creator must always be one who clarifies, for… — Andre Weil
The question for the ultimate foundations and the ultimate meaning of mathematics remains open; we do not know in which direction it will find its… — Hermann Weyl
The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact. — Alfred North Whitehead
What we search for in fiction is not so much reality, but the epiphany of truth. — Azar Nafisi

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