Rigour Quotes

29 Rigour quotes by 28 unique authors

Her virtues, graced with external gifts, Do breed love's settled passions in my heart; And like as rigour of tempestuous gusts Provokes the mightiest hulk… — William Shakespeare
Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of mankind. — Edward Gibbon
Every writer must reconcile, as best he may, the conflicting claims of consistency and variety, of rigour in detail and elegance in the whole. The… — Julian Coolidge
Modern economics is sick. Economics has increasingly become an intellectual game played for its own sake and not for its practical consequences for understanding the… — Unknown Author
How do we get a pantomime cow on set. Jeez, the rigours of satire. — Mel Smith
Besides it is an error to believe that rigour is the enemy of simplicity. On the contrary we find it confirmed by numerous examples that… — David Hilbert
If Courtezans and Strumpets were to be prosecuted with as much Rigour as some silly People would have it, what Locks or Bars would be… — Bernard de Mandeville
One of the effects of civilization is to diminish the rigour of the application of the law of natural selection. It preserves weakly lives that… — Francis Galton
The rigour of science requires that we distinguish well the undraped figure of Nature itself from the gay-coloured vesture with which we clothe her at… — Heinrich Hertz
In the broad light of day mathematicians check their equations and their proofs, leaving no stone unturned in their search for rigour. But, at night,… — Michael Atiyah
If this were so; if the desert were 'home'; if our instincts were forged in the desert; to survive the rigours of the desert -… — Bruce Chatwin
Rigour is to the mathematician what morality is to men. — Andre Weil
The cuisine, it is all about putting generosity before rigour and pleasure before lucidity. — Unknown Author
It really is worth the trouble to invent a new symbol if we can thus remove not a few logical difficulties and ensure the rigour… — Gottlob Frege
The great trick of regarding small departures from the truth as the truth itself - on which is founded the entire integral calculus - is… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game. — Charles Lamb
[O]ur sages in the great [constitutional] convention... intended our government should be a republic which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from… — Fisher Ames
If one must choose between rigour and meaning, I shall unhesitatingly choose the latter. — Rene Thom
A hot bath! How exquisite a vespertine pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigours, the austerities, the renunciations of the day. — Rose Macaulay
I'm constantly intimidated by Shakespeare's work. Trying to decipher what he's saying and holding on to that thought - not just as an actor, but… — Zoe Wanamaker
As a child I was really into fantasy books with elves and goblins and swords, and I went through a phase for a few years… — Jonathan Stroud
As for methods I have sought to give them all the rigour that one requires in geometry, so as never to have recourse to the… — Augustin-Louis Cauchy
Literary criticism has about it neither rigour nor proof. Where it is honest, it is passionate, private experience seeking to persuade. — George Steiner
In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision. — Lionel Messi
Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise… — Charlotte Bronte

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