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Notation Quotes by Cornelius Cardew
- A Composer who hears sounds will try to find a notation for sounds. One who has ideas will find one that expresses his ideas, leaving…
- The notation is more important than the sound. Not the exactitude and success with which a notation notates a sound; but the musicalness of the…
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- ...the question undoubtedly is, or soon will be, not whether or no we shall employ notation in chemistry, but whether we shall… — William Whewell
- Perhaps we see equations as simple because they are easily expressed in terms of mathematical notation already invented at an earlier stage… — Murray Gell-Mann
- To speak about notation as the only way that you can guarantee structure of course is already very suspect. — Evan Parker
- The reason it's worth standing up for punctuation is not that it's an arbitrary system of notation known only to an over-sensitive… — Lynne Truss
- Sometimes I write them down in musical notation as a trigger to remind me about certain directions to go. Or I can… — Harold Budd
- Your remarks upon chemical notation with the variety of systems which have arisen, &c., &c., had almost stirred me up to regret… — Michael Faraday
- It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind's labour. — Gottfried Leibniz
- It is possible, of course, to operate with figures mechanically, just as it is possible to speak like a parrot: but that… — Gottlob Frege