Infinitely Small Quotes

18 quotes by 17 authors

Perhaps we humans are cosmic dwarfs; perhaps we are molecular giants. But there is no denying our mid-scale complexity. We humans live neither at the… — Holmes Rolston III
[The infinitely small] neither have nor can have theory; it is a dangerous instrument in the hands of beginners [ ... ] anticipating, for my… — Francois-Joseph Servois
Who then understands the reciprocal flux and reflux of the infinitely great and the infinitely small, the echoing of causes in the abysses of being,… — Victor Hugo
My own understanding is the sole treasure I possess, and the greatest. Though infinitely small and fragile in comparison with the powers of darkness, it… — Carl Jung
If a nonnegative quantity was so small that it is smaller than any given one, then it certainly could not be anything but zero. To… — Leonhard Euler
Two possibilities: making oneself infinitely small or being so. The second is perfection, that is to say, inactivity, the first is beginning, that is to… — Franz Kafka
Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal, for the present moment is infinitely small; before we… — Alan Watts
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
There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present. — Iris Murdoch
The future of humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous countries, and the quality of life deteriorates; and yet I believe that what is… — Primo Levi
Each individual is a cosmos of organs, each organ is a cosmos of cells, each cell is a cosmos of infinitely small ones; and in… — Peter Kropotkin
A mathematician of the first rank, Laplace quickly revealed himself as only a mediocre administrator; from his first work we saw that we had been… — Napoleon Bonaparte
To those who ask what the infinitely small quantity in mathematics is, we answer that it is actually zero. Hence there are not so many… — Leonhard Euler
The role of the infinitely small in nature is infinitely great. — Louis Pasteur
The world of science lives fairly comfortably with paradox. We know that light is a wave, and also that light is a particle. The discoveries… — Madeleine L'Engle
I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases..... — Pablo Neruda
I really am only one infinitely small part of an aching humanity. — Beatrice Sparks
My being subsists only from a supreme point of view which is precisely incompatible with my point of view. The perspective in which I fade… — Maurice Blanchot

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