Finite Quotes

322 quotes by 240 authors

For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as… — Leo Tolstoy
Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for… — Stephen Hawking
In India there was a sense of time that does not tick with modern clocks, just as there is a knowledge that is not gained… — Huston Smith
And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting… — Rowan Williams
If you want to reach the infinite, then explore every aspect of the finite. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Combinatorics is an honest subject. No adÃ¨les, no sigma-algebras. You count balls in a box, and you either have the right number or you haven't.… — Gian-Carlo Rota
And what are these fluxions? The velocities of evanescent increments. And what are these same evanescent increments? They are neither finite quantities, nor quantities infinitely… — George Berkeley
It is amusing to discover, in the twentieth century, that the quarrels between two lovers, two mathematicians, two nations, two economic systems, usually assumed insoluble… — Alfred Korzybski
In theory, there is nothing the computer can do that the human mind can not do. The computer merely takes a finite amount of data… — Isaac Asimov
As well might a gnat seek to drink in the ocean, as a finite creature to comprehend the Eternal God. A God whom we could… — Charles Spurgeon
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
My work speaks of the finite and the infinite, of the macroscopic and the microscopic, the internal and external, by the masculine and feminine powers,… — Ernesto Neto
Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, - passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely… — Henry David Thoreau
We live on a finite planet. We have finite resources, and we're running out of good, arable land. — Jeremy Grantham
Feeling and experiencing infinity within this finite body, living timelessness within the time span of life - this is what you are here for — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Take the so-called standard of living. What do most people mean by "living"? They donâ€™t mean living. They mean the latest and closest plural approximation… — E E Cummings
Every infinity... is made finite to God. — Saint Augustine
Well, the capacity of French intellectuals to understand a Texan way of thinking is finite. — Henry A. Kissinger
Words are finite organs of the infinite mind. They cannot cover the dimensions of what is in truth. They break, chop, and impoverish it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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