Singularity Quotes

65 quotes by 49 authors

Perhaps [transgression] is like a flash of lightning in the night which, from the beginning of time, gives a dense and black intensity to the… — Michel Foucault
God abhors a naked singularity. — Stephen Hawking
The idea, therefore, that religious faith is somehow a sacred human conventionâ€”distinguished, as it is, both by the extravagance of its claims and by the… — Sam Harris
Henceforth I would have to cosent to combine two voices: the voice of banality (to say what everyone sees and knows) and the voice of… — Roland Barthes
There is only one real number: one. And love, apparently, is the best exponent of this singularity. — Vladimir Nabokov
As a language, Garbo's singularity was of the order of the concept, that of Audrey Hepburn is of the order of the substance; the face… — Roland Barthes
People who hold important positions in society are commonly labelled "somebodies," and their inverse "nobodies"-both of which are, of course, nonsensical descriptors, for we are… — Alain de Botton
You're different. You're more perfect. Time is three things for most people, but for you, for us, just one. A singularity. One moment. This moment.… — Jonathan Nolan
This singularity of meaning--I was my face, I was ugliness--though sometimes unbearable, also offered a possible point of escape. It became the launching pad from… — Lucy Grealy
The curious thing about individuals is that their singularity always goes beyond any category or generalization in the book. — Haruki Murakami
Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The artist is a strange being. I think it's safe to say that a real artist is conscious of having a personal singularity that is… — Peter Schjeldahl
From the beginning, about the rude altar of the god, to the days of Goethe, of Leopardi, and of Victor Hugo, the poet is the… — George Edward Woodberry
Our minds work in real time, which begins at the Big Bang and will end, if there is a Big Crunch - which seems unlikely,… — Stephen Hawking
The default mode of modern writing about art is to despise any notion of singularity as so much overheated genius-fetishism. — Simon Schama
It is no light matter to put in jeopardy a single life when it is the very singularity of each life which underpins the idea… — Tom Stoppard
A black hole really is an object with very rich structure, just like Earth has a rich structure of mountains, valleys, oceans, and so forth.… — Kip Thorne
The stammer was a way of telling the world that he was not like others, a way of expressing his singularity. — Ted Morgan
Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose; also the first announcement of death. — Peter Conrad
Celibacy, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity; but… — Jeremy Taylor

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