Collections Quote by John Edensor Littlewood Download Open image “A Miscellany is a collection without a natual ordering relation.” — John Edensor Littlewood ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Collections Mathematics Miscellany Relation
Orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular.… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
Yet nature cannot be contravened, but preserves a fixed and immutable order. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a complete lack of order, only a design so vast it appears unrepetitive up close. — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Relations are sometime like tangled threads, together in some way, but with no real shape, individuality or combination. — Tasneem Hameed Copy Share Image
A collection to which nothing can be added and from which nothing can be removed is, in fact, dead! — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Order is a necessary condition for anything the human mind is to understand. — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
A good mathematical joke is better, and better mathematics, than a dozen mediocre papers. — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
Mathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us go mad. — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
The first test of potential in mathematics is whether you can get anything out of geometry. — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
A precisian professor had the habit of saying: "... quartic polynomial ax^4+bx^3+cx^2+dx+e , where e need not be the base of the natural logarithms." — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
I recall once saying that when I had given the same lecture several times I couldn't help feeling that they really ought to know… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
The theory of numbers is particularly liable to the accusation that some of its problems are the wrong sort of questions to ask. I… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
The higher mental activities are pretty tough and resilient, but it is a devastating experience if the drive does stop. Some people lose it… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
The referee said it was not acceptable, but the Press considered they could not refuse to publish a book by a professor of the… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
I constantly meet people who are doubtful, generally without due reason, about their potential capacity [as mathematicians]. The first test is whether you got… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
I read in the proof sheets of Hardy on Ramanujan: "As someone said, each of the positive integers was one of his personal friends."… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
The surprising thing about this paper is that a man who could write it would. — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
Life is a collection of moments. Mindfulness is beautification of the moments. — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
Hercules used noise! Brass bells! He scared them away with the most horrible sound he could-" said Percy "Percy... Chiron's collection! — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
MAC allowed me to have complete freedom on the collaborations—from the shades, the look-and-feel, to the campaign visuals. I have to admit that the… — Philip Treacy Copy Share Image
I took a wrong turn on the way to the bathroom and found myself in a beautifully proportioned room I had never seen before,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
This is an extraordinary illustrated collection of Chinese herbsaccompanied by concise and expert comments. Jing-Nuan Wu has succeeded incompiling this most unique and informative… — Koji Nakanishi Copy Share Image
I have a large watch collection, and classic watches are especially important to me. I had a silver Rolex, and I actually gave it… — Nate Berkus Copy Share Image
By calling it a memoir, I meant is as a collection of memories. I thought it was (a more) artful (title) than documentary. — Natalie Merchant Copy Share Image
Who wrote the Bible? Current scholarship, to my knowledge, assumes that the material that constitutes the Old Testament was put together from various oral… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I've had plenty of jo-jobs. Nothing I'd call a career. Let me put it this way. I have an extensive collection of name tags… — Wayne Campbell Copy Share Image
The benefit of writing a collection - as opposed to a novel - is that I'm able to have some version of the war… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
Museums do not share their collections with other museums unless they get something in exchange. The Metropolitan will deal with the Louvre, but will… — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
