Anachronism Quote by Jorge Luis Borges Download Open image “Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms” — Jorge Luis Borges ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Anachronism Reality Symmetry
“As we just saw, some concepts such as symmetries retain their central status. In contrast, other concepts, such as initial conditions, complexity and randomness,… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference... — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The biggest conceptual change over the last 100 years in the way physicists think about the world is symmetry. — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Nothing in physics seems so hopeful to as the idea that it is possible for a theory to have a high degree of symmetry… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Since the beginning of physics, symmetry considerations have provided us with an extremely powerful and useful tool in our effort to understand nature. Gradually… — Tsung-Dao Lee Copy Share Image
“Physical reality does not require that we be pleased with its mechanism; we must see the implications of a theory for what they are… — Kevin Michel Copy Share Image
Symmetry does mean something different for physicists than for members of the public. It means that an object or a theory does not change… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
The execution was set for the 29th of March, at nine in the morning. This delay was due to a desire on the part… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I don't think we're capable of knowledge, but I like to keep an open mind. So if you ask me whether I believe in… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The web of time - the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect, or ignore each other through the centuries - embraces "every"… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don't have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
When you stroll through Munich it can happen that you suddenly stand in front of an old house, an idyllically-dreaming church that smiles like… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
The greatest temptation for the like of us is: to renounce violence, to repent, to make peace with oneself. Most revolutionaries fell before this… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The energy that actually shapes the world springs from emotions - racial pride, leader-worship, religious belief, love of war - which liberal intellectuals mechanically… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If I was a poet, I had become one because poetry, more intensely than any other practice, could not evade its anachronism and marginality… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms. — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
Some of my favorite photos from the old days are of people who maybe didn't know how to smile. Maybe smiling in photos wasn't… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
Thanks to the Polgars the adjective 'men's' before events and the 'affirmative action' women's titles such as Woman Grandmaster have become anachronisms. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
One already feels like an anachronism, writing novels in the age of what-ever-this-is-the-age-of, but touring to promote them feels doubly anachronistic. The marketplace is… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Independent self-reliant people would be a counterproductive anachronism in the collective society of the future where people will be defined by their associations. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
September 11 was a day of de-Enlightenment. Politics stood revealed as a veritable Walpurgis Night of the irrational. And such old, old stuff. The… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
