Formulae Quotes
32 quotes by 31 authors
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The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if…
— Paulo Coelho
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The artist does not illustrate science; ... [but] he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does, and expresses by a visual synthesis…
— Lewis Mumford
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Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds you stuff of any degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what you get out…
— Thomas Huxley
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Medicine is an incoherent assemblage of incoherent ideas, and is, perhaps, of all the physiological Sciences, that which best shows the caprice of the human…
— Marie Francois Xavier Bichat
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Anyone who has had actual contact with the making of the inventions that built the radio art knows that these inventions have been the product…
— Edwin Howard Armstrong
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Who ... is not familiar with Maxwell's memoirs on his dynamical theory of gases? ... from one side enter the equations of state; from the…
— Ludwig Boltzmann
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We liked to be known as the clever girls. When we decorated our hands with henna for holidays and weddings, we drew calculus and chemical…
— Malala Yousafzai
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Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew.
— Anthony Hecht
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To the Jews, Rome constituted the quintessence of all that was odious and should be swept away from off the face of the earth. They…
— Joseph Kastein
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No scientist thinks in formulae.
— Albert Einstein
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I am going to produce a movie of my own. I am not going to stick to the time-tested formulae of Hindi cinema. I want…
— Kabir Bedi
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...from the time of Kepler to that of Newton, and from Newton to Hartley, not only all things in external nature, but the subtlest mysteries…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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When a mathematician engaged in investigating physical actions and results has arrived at his own conclusions, may they not be expressed in common language as…
— Michael Faraday
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We need no science of formulae, but a science of forms.
— Viktor Schauberger
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Neither concepts nor mathematical formulae can explain the infinite.
— Eckhart Tolle
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It has been said that I have three heroes: Christ, Marx and Freud. This is reducing everything to formulae. In truth, my only hero is…
— Pier Paolo Pasolini
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Another advantage of a mathematical statement is that it is so definite that it might be definitely wrong; and if it is found to be…
— Lewis Fry Richardson
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As the mind learns to understand more complicated combinations of ideas, simpler formulae soon reduce their complexity; so truths that were discovered only by great…
— Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
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For words are magical formulae. They leave finger marks be hind on the brain, which in the twinkling of an eye become the footprints of…
— Franz Kafka
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Schools were designed by Horace Mann and Barnard Sears and Harper of the University of Chicago and Thorndyke of Columbia Teachers College and some other…
— John Taylor Gatto
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