Rigorous Quotes

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Self-discipline is a rigorous process at best; too many of us want it to be effortless and painless. — Thomas S. Monson
There is no one area of chemical engineering that specifically helped me in my career as an astronaut, it was more the general education in… — Leroy Chiao
Religions, of course, have their own demanding intellectual traditions, as Jesuits and Talmudic scholars might attest.... But, in its less rigorous, popular forms, religion is… — Wendy Kaminer
Mathematics is of two kinds, Rigorous and Physical. The former is Narrow: the latter Bold and Broad. To have to stop to formulate rigorous demonstrations… — Oliver Heaviside
Every one is as much bound in thought, word, deed, and mind, as a piece of stone or this table. That I talk to you… — Swami Vivekananda
Hugely enjoyable and insightfulGosling has produced the perfect combination of rigorous research and lightness of prose to create a book that will transform every reader… — Richard Wiseman
It bothers me when the Hollywood elite are all so against people having guns and want rigorous gun restrictions. — Alana Stewart
Complexity demands resilience, and that's what panarchy offers. Resilience in the face of complexity is a challenge even when you apply rigorous intelligence and integrity… — Robert David Steele
In college, in the early 1950s, I began to learn a little about how science works, the secrets of its great success, how rigorous the… — Carl Sagan
Torrents of blood have been spilt in the old world, by vain attempts of the secular arm, to extinguish Religious discord, by proscribing all difference… — James Madison
Literature... is condemned (or privileged) to be forever the most rigorous and, consequently, the most reliable of terms in which man names and transforms himself. — Paul de Man
In a more intellectually rigorous age, I wouldn't be talked about as a satirist at all. I would just be a topical comedian. — Rory Bremner
Fortunately New Zealand doesn't have land borders so we are able to be somewhat more rigorous on who gets in and out of our country… — Helen Clark
Within psychology and neuroscience, some new and rigorous experimental paradigms for studying consciousness have helped it begin to overcome the stigma that has been attached… — David Chalmers
NSF is the only federal agency with a proven track record of selecting education projects through a rigorous, careful and competitive process that draws on… — Bob Inglis
In Italy, above all in view of the next general election, political parties, movements and new politicians continue to proliferate, naturally all inspired by the… — William C. Brown
My music is very, very precise. It's very rigorous. The forms are much more intricate than you would imagine. — Meredith Monk
Mathematics is not arithmetic. Though mathematics may have arisen from the practices of counting and measuring it really deals with logical reasoning in which theorems-general… — Christopher Zeeman
There is no rigorous definition of rigor. — Morris Kline
Sign language is the equal of speech, lending itself equally to the rigorous and the poetic, to philosophical analysis or to making love. — Oliver Sacks

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