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Finite Quotes by Gian-Carlo Rota
- The progress of mathematics can be viewed as progress from the infinite to the finite.
- God created infinity, and man, unable to understand infinity, had to invent finite sets.
- Combinatorics is an honest subject. No adèles, no sigma-algebras. You count balls in a box, and you either have the right number or you haven't.…
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- I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing… — 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… — 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… — Unknown Author
- Worship is the highest act of which a person is capable. It not only stretches us beyond all the limits of our… — Unknown Author
- It is important to remember that the ocean's resources are finite. The commitment these kids are making here today is a clear… — Ted Danson
- The known is finite, the unknown infinite; spiritually we find ourselves on a tiny island in the middle of a boundless ocean… — 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… — Fred Hoyle
- We come no nearer the infinitude of the creative power of God, if we enclose the space of its revelation within a… — Immanuel Kant
- We know that there is an infinite, and we know not its nature. As we know it to be false that numbers… — Blaise Pascal