Formal Quotes

399 Formal quotes by 358 unique authors

Modern economics is a set of formal models and equations purporting to fully determine human behaviour, at least in the economic realm. And there is… — Murray Rothbard
But typically for a project like the Mac, the size we had was pretty good. And it has different stages. The team grows as you… — Andy Hertzfeld
In life two negatives don't make a positive. Double negatives turn positive only in math and formal logic. In life things just get worse and… — Robert McKee
An axiomatic system comprises axioms and theorems and requires a certain amount of hand-eye coordination before it works. A formal system comprises an explicit list… — David Berlinski
Formality Thus the absence of all mention of particular things or properties in logic or pure mathematics is a necessary result of the fact that… — Bertrand Russell
Eisenhower had run the Army; he knew all the ways decision making can go off the rails, and insisted on collective debate precisely to prevent… — Nancy Gibbs
I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind. — Sarah Zettel
My mother, who was professional schoolteacher, was particularly concerned about our formal education and even went so far as to start a private school together… — Robert B. Laughlin
In my own recent String Trio I attempt to superimpose two quite different sets of formal strategies, both of which, ultimately, refer back to historical… — Brian Ferneyhough
I am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is easy, not diffident,… — Albert J. Nock
I am very defective in all duties... In prayer I wander and am formal... I soon tire; devotion languishes; and I do not walk with… — William Carey
Never will anyone who says his Rosary every day become a formal heretic or be led astray by the devil. — Louis de Montfort
Marriage is a way to avoid intimacy. It is a trick to create a formal relationship. Intimacy is informal. If a marriage arises out of… — Rajneesh
While you don't need a formal written contract before you get married, I think it's important for both partners to spell out what they expect… — Muriel Fox
I am convinced that we as a body must conduct a formal and legitimate debate about election irregularities. — Stephanie Tubbs Jones
Socialism is the phantastic younger brother of despotism, which it wants to inherit. Socialism wants to have the fullness of state force which before only… — Friedrich Nietzsche
We want a vernacular in art. No mere verbal or formal agreement, or dead level of uniformity but that comprehensive and harmonizing unity with individual… — Walter Crane
Today, we need to listen more carefully. I read what people say on Twitter, my friends on Path, in addition to formal media. I look… — Padmasree Warrior
DUEL, n. A formal ceremony preliminary to reconciliation of two enemies. Great skill is necessary to its satisfactory observance; if awkwardly performed . . .… — Ambrose Bierce
The purely formal language of geometry describes adequately the reality of space. We might say, in this sense, that geometry is successful magic. I should… — Rene Thom

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