Infinitesimal Quotes

52 quotes by 49 authors

We profess to teach the principles and practice of medicine, or, in other words, the science and art of medicine. Science is knowledge reduced to… — Samuel Wilks
Among all the occurrences possible in the universe the a priori probability of any particular one of them verges upon zero. Yet the universe exists;… — Jacques Monod
I have a peculiar theory about radium, and I believe it is the correct one. I believe that there is some mysterious ray pervading the… — Thomas A. Edison
The saying that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing is, to my mind, a very dangerous adage. If knowledge is real and genuine, I… — Thomas Huxley
It is going to be necessary that everything that happens in a finite volume of space and time would have to be analyzable with a… — Richard P. Feynman
Foreshadowings of the principles and even of the language of [the infinitesimal] calculus can be found in the writings of Napier, Kepler, Cavalieri, Pascal, Fermat,… — W. W. Rouse Ball
[P]olitical and social and scientific values ... should be correlated in some relation of movement that could be expressed in mathematics, nor did one care… — Henry Adams
We do not live in a time when knowledge can be extended along a pathway smooth and free from obstacles, as at the time of… — Heinrich Burkhardt
And all this madness, all this rage, all this flaming death of our civilization and our hopes, has been brought about because a set of… — Bertrand Russell
To be whole and harmonious, man must also know the music of the beaches and the woods. He must find the thing of which he… — William O. Douglas
I never am really satisfied that I understand anything; because, understand it well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of… — Ada Lovelace
What if you let go of every bit of control and every urge that you have, right down to the most infinitesimal urge to control… — Adyashanti
The infinitesimal seedlings became a forest of trees that grew courteously, correcting the distances between themselves as they shaped themselves to the promptings of available… — William Wilson
Our world hangs like a magnificent jewel in the vastness of space. Every one of us is a part of that jewel. A facet of… — Fred Rogers
It's time we put thoughts of lack behind us. It's time for us to discover the secrets of the stars, to sail to an uncharted… — Sarah Ban Breathnach
Zeno was concerned with three problems... These are the problem of the infinitesimal, the infinite, and continuity. — Bertrand Russell
It hit me very early on that something was terribly wrong, that I would see silos full of food and supermarkets full of food, and… — Medea Benjamin
A mathematician is a magician who converts adjectives into nouns: continuous into continuum, infinite into infinity, infinitesimal into location, 0D into point, 1D into line,… — Bill Gaede
In the visible world, the Milky Way is a tiny fragment; within this fragment, the solar system is an infinitesimal speck, and of this speck… — Bertrand Russell
Katherine it was who took upon herself the complete charge of [Junior's] speech. Not an insignificant "have went" nor an infinitesimal "I seen" ever escaped… — Bess Streeter Aldrich

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