Interplay Quotes
58 quotes by 48 authors
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Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are…
— Richard Courant
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Science no longer is in the position of observer of nature, but rather recognizes itself as part of the interplay between man and nature. The…
— Werner Heisenberg
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The progress of science has always been the result of a close interplay between our concepts of the universe and our observations on nature. The…
— Tsung-Dao Lee
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For the first time there was constructed with this machine [locomotive engine] a self-acting mechanism in which the interplay of forces took shape transparently enough…
— Carl Ludwig
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To my mind, the theory of [evolution] does not stand up at all. If living matter is not, then, caused by the interplay of atoms,…
— Henry Lipson
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Man can learn self-discipline without becoming ascetic; he can be wise without waiting to be old; he can be influential without waiting for status. Man…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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We've bought into the idea that education is about training and "success," defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and challenge. We should not…
— Chris Hedges
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The effort of the economist is to "see," to picture the interplay of economic elements. The more clearly cut these elements appear in his vision,…
— Irving Fisher
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... life is moral responsibility. Life is several other things, we do not deny. It is beauty, it is joy, it is tragedy, it is…
— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
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Music is a means capable of expressing dark dramatism and pure rapture, suffering and ecstasy, fiery and cold fury, melancholy and wild merriment – and…
— Dmitri Shostakovich
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The winter moon becomes a companion, the heart of the priest, sunk in meditation upon religion and philosophy, there in the mountain hall, is engaged…
— Yasunari Kawabata
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What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities,…
— Octavio Paz
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For we cannot adequately understand 'man' as an isolated biological creature, as a bundle of reflexes or a set of instincts, as an 'intelligible field'…
— C. Wright Mills
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What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand…
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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Genuine mental health would involve a balanced interplay of both modes of experience, a way of life in which one's identification with the ego is…
— Fritjof Capra
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Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves
— Werner Heisenberg
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Thorny compositions that sound as if female teen punkers the Shaggs received doctorates in the music of 12-tone composer Alban Berg, and then rewrote their…
— Elliott Sharp
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To say that you can 'have experience,' means, for one thing, that your past plays into and affects your present, and that it defines your…
— C. Wright Mills
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Max Weber was right in subscribing to the view that one need not be Caesar in order to understand Caesar. But there is a temptation…
— Robert K. Merton
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Ryan Stout, a straight-arrow-looking kind of guy, shocks the crowd into laughter with his inventive interplay between innocence and a jarringly twisted point of view.…
— Ben Fong-Torres
Who Wrote These Interplay Quotes
48 authors contributed a total of 58 Interplay Quotes, led by these top contributors: