Ontology Quotes
54 quotes by 43 authors
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Utopia would seem to offer the spectacle of one of those rare phenomena whose concept is indistinguishable from its reality, whose ontology coincides with its…
— Fredric Jameson
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Brilliant. The Ontology Project is a post-graduate course in card magic.
— Jim Steinmeyer
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In ridiculing a pathetic human fallacy, which seeks explanation where none need be sought and which multiplies unnecessary assumptions, one should not mimic primitive ontology…
— Christopher Hitchens
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We must revisit the idea that science is a methodology and not an ontology.
— Deepak Chopra
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It's a fact that children with cancer have higher cure rates than adults with cancer, and I wonder if the reason is their natural, unthinking…
— Lance Armstrong
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You can't. Do you hear me? You think you've figured something out? You run over here so pleased with yourself because you changed your mind.…
— David Auburn
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Infinity is a fathomless gulf, into which all things vanish.
— Marcus Aurelius
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The slicing technique from Flatland still remains one of the most powerful tools for dealing with aggregates in higher dimensions.
— Thomas Banchoff
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Today the major reason for our interest in Flatland is that for the first time we can achieve some of the dreams of our ancestors…
— Thomas Banchoff
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My theory stands as firm as a rock; every arrow directed against it will return quickly to its archer. How do I know this? Because…
— Georg Cantor
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This view [of the infinite], which I consider to be the sole correct one, is held by only a few. While possibly I am the…
— Georg Cantor
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The actual infinite arises in three contexts: first when it is realized in the most complete form, in a fully independent otherworldly being, in Deo,…
— Georg Cantor
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No human investigation can claim to be scientific if it doesn't pass the test of mathematical proof.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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My opinion of mankind is founded upon the mournful fact that, so far as I can see, they find within themselves the means of believing…
— Augustus De Morgan
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Although my knowledge grows more and more, nevertheless I do not for that reason believe that it can ever be actually infinite, since it can…
— Rene Descartes
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Neither the true nor the false roots are always real; sometimes they are imaginary; that is, while we can always imagine as many roots for…
— Rene Descartes
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We call infinite that thing whose limits we have not perceived, and so by that word we do not signify what we understand about a…
— Rene Descartes
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Calculus works by making visible the infinitesimally small.
— Keith Devlin
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The increased abstraction in mathematics that took place during the early part of this century was paralleled by a similar trend in the arts. In…
— Keith Devlin
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I shall devote all my efforts to bring light into the immense obscurity that today reigns in Analysis. It so lacks any plan or system,…
— Niels Henrik Abel
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