Acts of violence Quote by Hermann Weyl Download Open image “The introduction of numbers as coordinates is an act of violence.” — Hermann Weyl ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Acts of violence Introduction Math Mathematics Numbers Violence
The introduction of numbers as coordinates by reference to the particular division scheme of the open one-dimensional continuum is an act of violence whose… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
Numbers serve to discipline rhetoric. Without them it is too easy to follow flights of fancy, to ignore the world as it is and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
... numbers have neither substance, nor meaning, nor qualities. They are nothing but marks, and all that is in them we have put into… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
“Numbers are unique, there is nothing like them and this book reveals something of their mysterious nature. Numbers are familiar to everyone and are… — Peter Michael Higgins Copy Share Image
“Numbers, furthermore as archetypal structural constants of the collective unconscious, possess a dynamic, active aspect which is especially important to keep in mind. It… — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
The numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The numbers are a catalyst that can help turn raving madmen into polite humans. — Philip J. Davis Copy Share Image
Numbers have a way of taking a man by the hand and leading him down the path of reason. — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
“That’s the origin of the number, and how it became a theme for this book.” — A.R. Wise Copy Share Image
Numbers are really fascinating things, and they do play a big part in our lives. They are a language of their own. — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
For mathematics, even to the logical forms in which it moves, is entirely dependent on the concept of natural number. — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
Mathematics has the inhuman quality of starlight, brilliant and sharp, but cold. — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
The introduction of numbers as coordinates by reference to the particular division scheme of the open one-dimensional continuum is an act of violence whose… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
“Our generation is witness to a development of physical knowledge such as has not been seen since the days of Kepler, Galileo and Newton, and mathematics has scarcely ever experienced such a stormy epoch. Mathematical thought removes the spirit from its worldly haunts to solitude and renounces the unveiling of the secrets of Nature. But as recompense, mathematics is less… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share
“the problem is then to develop a theory of invariance with respect to arbitrary linear transformations, in which, however, in contra-distinction to the case… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
Before you generalize, formalize, and axiomatize there must be mathematical substance. — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
The whole is always more, is more capable of a much greater variety of wave states, than the combination of its parts. ... In… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality. — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
Not only in geometry, but to a still more astonishing degree in physics, has it become more and more evident that as soon as we have succeeded in unraveling fully the natural laws which govern reality, we find them to be expressible by mathematical relations of surprising simplicity and architectonic perfection. It seems to me to be one of the… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share
“The goal of mathematics is the symbolic comprehension of the infinite with human, that is finite, means.” — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
God exists because arithmetic is consistent - the Devil exists because we can't prove it! — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
Without the concepts, methods and results found and developed by previous generations right down to Greek antiquity one cannot understand either the aims or… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
There was a man named Robert Dear who in court said he was a warrior for the babies, whose ex-wife talked about his Christian… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
“By the time they're out of preschool, most children have already seen thousands of acts of violence.” — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
We would never ask any other faith community to stand up and condemn acts of violence committed by people within their groups. The fact… — Linda Sarsour Copy Share Image
I learned that victims come in all image - some raped, some witnessing an act of violence, some losing loved ones. I learned that… — Zainab Salbi Copy Share Image
I want people around the world to hear me. To all those who would do us harm, no act of terror will go unpunished.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
How do we deal with not just the acts of violence, but the extremist ideology that lies behind them? Because though the numbers of… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Muslim leaders around the globe have to continue working with us to decisively and unequivocally reject the hateful ideology that groups like ISIL and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The introduction of numbers as coordinates by reference to the particular division scheme of the open one-dimensional continuum is an act of violence whose… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
“He wished he understood where they come from: all the terrorists, religious revolutionists and hate-criminals. Did terrorizing entire communities of people help them sleep sound at night? Did it make them happy? Or are they just in for the attention? Have they nothing to lose? Or are they simply bored and spit balling issues that have always been there? Can… — Thisuri Wanniarachchi Copy Share
By the age of 18, the average American has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence on television, most of them occurring during Game 1 of… — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
Of course I tensed up when he touched me. To be with him was to hurt him-inevitably. And that's what I'd felt as he… — John Green Copy Share Image
We have agreed with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to cease all acts of violence against the Israelis and against the Palestinians wherever they are.… — Mahmoud Abbas Copy Share Image
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