Properties Quotes

238 quotes by 190 authors

There's no obvious reason to assume that the very same rare properties that allow for our existence would also provide the best overall setting to… — Unknown Author
In the realm of ideas, of mental objects, those ideas whose properties are reproducible are called mathematical objects, and the study of mental objects with… — Philip J. Davis
A good hypothesis in science must have other properties than those of the phenomenon it is immediately invoked to explain, otherwise it is not prolific… — William James
Statistics is the branch of scientific method which deals with the data obtained by counting or measuring the properties of populations of natural phenomena. — Maurice Kendall
Physiology is the science which treats of the properties of organic bodies, animal and vegetable, of the phenomena they present, and of the laws which… — Johannes Peter Muller
But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had begun to get… — Christopher Dawson
Elements which are similar as regards their chemical properties have atomic weights which are either of nearly the same value (eg. Pt, Ir, Os) or… — Dmitri Mendeleev
Certain characteristic properties of elements can be foretold from their atomic weights. — Dmitri Mendeleev
While a modicum of consciousness may have had survivalist properties during an immemorial chapter of our evolution â€“ so one theory goes â€“ this faculty… — Thomas Ligotti
One would be hard put to find a set of whole numbers with a more fascinating history and more elegant properties surrounded by greater depths… — Martin Gardner
The radiations that pour upon the earth cause the biosphere to take on properties unknown to lifeless planetary surfaces, and thus transform the face of… — Vladimir Vernadsky
FAITH. No one word personifies the absolute worst and most wicked properties of religion better than that. Faith is mind-rot. Itâ€™s the poison that destroys… — PZ Myers
Certain characteristics of the subject are clear. To begin with, we do not in this subject deal with particular things or particular properties: we deal… — Bertrand Russell
Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire. — William Faulkner
Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe… — Samuel Alexander
There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics. It is every bit as mind blowing as cosmology or… — Paul Lockhart
The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge. — Oliver Lodge
If you mix up chirality, a protein's properties change enormously. Life couldn't operate with just random mixtures of stuff, — Ronald Breslow
Formality Thus the absence of all mention of particular things or properties in logic or pure mathematics is a necessary result of the fact that… — Bertrand Russell
The kind of knowledge which is supported only by observations and is not yet proved must be carefully distinguished from the truth; it is gained… — Leonhard Euler

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