Finite Quotes

322 quotes by 246 authors

I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises. — Neil Armstrong
Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn. — Robert Browning
Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot… — Thomas Carlyle
Life is short, youth is finite, and opportunities endless — Justin Rosenstein
The first gesture of an architect is to draw a perimeter; in other words, to separate the microclimate from the macro space outside. This in… — Mario Botta
Worship is the highest act of which a person is capable. It not only stretches us beyond all the limits of our finite selves to… — Samuel Henry Miller
It is important to remember that the ocean's resources are finite. The commitment these kids are making here today is a clear and compelling call… — Ted Danson
The known is finite, the unknown infinite; spiritually we find ourselves on a tiny island in the middle of a boundless ocean of the inexplicable.… — Thomas Huxley
If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One [idea] was that the Universe started its life a finite time ago in a single huge explosion, and that the present expansion is a… — Fred Hoyle
We come no nearer the infinitude of the creative power of God, if we enclose the space of its revelation within a sphere described with… — Immanuel Kant
We know that there is an infinite, and we know not its nature. As we know it to be false that numbers are finite, it… — Blaise Pascal
We should like Nature to go no further; we should like it to be finite, like our mind; but this is to ignore the greatness… — Gottfried Leibniz
It is going to be necessary that everything that happens in a finite volume of space and time would have to be analyzable with a… — Richard P. Feynman
The progress of mathematics can be viewed as progress from the infinite to the finite. — Gian-Carlo Rota
The transfinite numbers are in a sense the new irrationalities [ ... they] stand or fall with the finite irrational numbers. — Georg Cantor
Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist. — Kenneth E. Boulding
Until now the theory of infinite series in general has been very badly grounded. One applies all the operations to infinite series as if they… — Niels Henrik Abel
Finally you come to a point where you almost know it all. You are very wise. You are very pure... except for the fact that… — Ram Dass
For it is only the finite that has wrought and suffered; the infinite lies stretched in smiling repose. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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