Letters Quote by Lewis Carroll Download Open image “Magnitudes are algebraically represented by letter, men by men of letters, and so on.” — Lewis Carroll ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Letters Magnitude Men Representation
My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term "magnitude," which is used for the brightness of a star. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Secondly, figures, the symbols of numerical magnitude, are frequently also the symbols of operations, as when they are the indices of powers. Wherever terms… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
That this subject [of imaginary magnitudes] has hitherto been considered from the wrong point of view and surrounded by a mysterious obscurity, is to… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
“Mathematically-minded persons will thus perceive immediately that the magnitude scale is a logarithmic one and that the number 2.512 is the fifth root of 100.” — Robert Burnham Copy Share Image
In the Pythagorean system, thinking about numbers, or doing mathematics, was an inherently masculine task. Mathematics was associated with the gods, and with transcendence… — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
Men cannot be treated as units in operations of political arithmetic because they behave like the symbols for zero and the infinite , which… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I protest against the use of infinite magnitude ..., which is never permissible in mathematics. — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
Lately there have been complaints that the use of the magnitude scale is confusing, or at least the reporting of magnitudes in the newspapers… — Charles Francis Richter Copy Share Image
There is another common misapprehension that the magnitude scale is itself some kind of instrument or apparatus. Visitors will frequently ask to 'see the… — Charles Francis Richter Copy Share Image
This is very similar to astronomy where different magnitudes are assigned to the brightness of an astronomical object, depending on the range of wavelengths… — Charles Francis Richter Copy Share Image
Numbers instill a feeling for the lie of the land, and furnish grist for the mathematical mill that is the physicist's principal tool. — Hans Christian von Baeyer Copy Share Image
You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk. I can't tell you just now what the moral of that… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“I'm afraid I can't explain myself, sir. Because I am not myself, you see?” — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
My beloved friend - one of the most unique and charming personalities of our time. — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Either it brings tears to their eyes, or else -" "Or else what?" said Alice, for the Knight had made a sudden pause. "Or… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“We may give our human loves the unconditional allegiance which we owe only to God. Then they become gods: then they become demons. Then… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
In the midst of the word he was trying to say In the midst of his laughter and glee, He had softly and suddenly vanished away - For the Snark was a Boojum, you see. — Lewis Carroll Copy Share
“But it must be borne in mind that, if there is a Scylla before me, there is also a Charybdis - and that, in… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: He did his very best to make The billows smooth and bright-- And this was odd, because it was The middle of the night. — Lewis Carroll Copy Share
“In vain we roared;in vain we tried To rouse her into laughter: Her pensive glances wandered wide From orchestra to rafter - "TIER UPON… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Thanks for your nice little note, though I am sorry to hear you find Through the Looking Glass so uninteresting. You see I have… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture. MARTIN LUTHER, letter to Chancellor Gregory Brück, January 13,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't mean you know anything about marketing. Or layout. Or editing. Or publicity. Or selling your books for foreign markets.Everyone can point to a few examples of people that have done very well for themselves self-publishing. But… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share
Memory revises me. Even now a letter comes from a place I don’t know, from someone with my name and postmarked years ago, while I await injunctions from the light or the dark; I wait for shapeliness limned, or dissolution. Is paradise due or narrowly missed until another thousand years? I wait in a blue hour and faraway noise of… — Li-Young Lee Copy Share
You cannot ... transmute some incoherent mixture of words into sense merely by introducing the three-letter word "God" to be its grammatical subject. — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
“Woe to you, my Princess, when I come. I will kiss you quite red and feed you till you are plump. And if you… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Dear Beloved woman, Time… so much time has passed since my love wrote his last words for me. And yet I remember it as if it were yesterday. I remember writing back and for the first time since I had left home I told my love what kind of darkness surrounded me here. I forgot all the sweet things my… — Talon P.S Copy Share
Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay. — Adrian Frutiger Copy Share Image
Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
![“That this subject [of imaginary magnitudes] has hitherto been considered from the wrong point of view and surrounded by a mysterious obscurity, is to be attributed largely to an ill-adapted notation. If, for example, +1, -1, and the square root of -1 had been called direct, inverse and lateral…” quote by Carl Friedrich Gauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/acb/carl-friedrich-gauss-9412_adapted_that-this-subject-of-imaginary-magnitude_3134596.jpg)
