Rigorous Quotes

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Unequal Democracy is the sort of book to which every political scientist should aspire--it is methodologically rigorous, conceptually serious, and above all, it addresses urgent… — Robert D. Putnam
To make music means to express human intelligence by sonic means. This is intelligence in its broadest sense, which includes not only the peregrinations of… — Iannis Xenakis
Mathematics has two faces: it is the rigorous science of Euclid, but it is also something else. Mathematics presented in the Euclidean way appears as… — George Polya
But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical… — David Brin
Is it possible that even happy moments of pleasure never stand up to a rigorous examination? Possible. — Elena Ferrante
Men are not narrow in their intellectual interests by nature; it takes special and rigorous training to accomplish that end. — Jacob Viner
At times God's best pupils experience the most rigorous and continuous courses. Eventually those who prove to be men of Christ will thereby become distinguished… — Neal A. Maxwell
A heavy warning used to be given that pictures are not rigorous; this has never had its bluff called and has permanently frightened its victims… — John Edensor Littlewood
It's [programming] the only job I can think of where I get to be both an engineer and an artist. There's an incredible, rigorous, technical… — Andy Hertzfeld
My basic idea is that programming is the most powerful medium of developing the sophisticated and rigorous thinking needed for mathematics, for grammar, for physics,… — Seymour Papert
It remains an astonishing, disturbing fact that in America - a nation where nearly every new drug is subjected to rigorous scrutiny as a potential… — Siddhartha Mukherjee
What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year.… — Mark Twain
Sometimes we want to have growth without challenges and to develop strength without any struggle. But growth cannot come by taking the easy way. We… — Paul V. Johnson
If you are rigorous in your own R&D in whatever your area is, you do your own testing, and you really stress-test the thing that… — Brian Koppelman
If we offer too much silent assent about mysticism and superstition - even when it seems to be doing a little good - we abet… — Carl Sagan
In the visual arts, for example, the semiological approach to graphics provides a rigorous analysis of the visual means used by the artist. It defines… — Jacques Bertin
There is only one meditation - the rigorous refusal to harbor thoughts. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
In some suburban schools, the curriculum is chock-full of rigorous A.P. courses and the parking lot glitters with pricey SUVs, but one doesn't have to… — Alfie Kohn
That consciousness of quality, and the need to demand it can galvanize your energies, not just in your work, but in a rigorous exercise of… — Meryl Streep
Thus the creative genius may be at once nave and knowledgeable, being at home equally to primitive symbolism and to rigorous logic. He is both… — Frank X. Barron

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