Absolutes Quote by Mason Cooley Download Open image “Pursuit of the approximate can conclude. Not so pursuit of the absolute.” — Mason Cooley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Absolutes Idealism Pursuit
“Absolute does not deny improbability, it fails to acknowledge its existence.” — Christopher Bishoy Ayoub Copy Share Image
It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It seems that truth is progressive approximation in which the relative fraction of our spontaneously tolerated residual error constantly diminishes. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
“Never perceive anything as being inevitable or predestined. The only absolute is uncertainty.” — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations. — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
“Why is it so difficult for us to think in relative terms? Well, for the good reason that human nature loves absoluteness, and erroneously… — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
“our successful theories aren’t mathematics approximating physics, but mathematics approximating mathematics.” — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“We may at once admit that any inference from the particular to the general must be attended with some degree of uncertainty, but this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The scientist knows very well that he is approaching ultimate truth only in an asymptotic curve and is barred from ever reaching it; but… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it when we… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
If you live in a material universe where acquiring things is very important to you, then family is an absolute deterrent to maintaining that… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Their [the U.S.’s] defense budget in absolute figures is almost 25 times bigger than Russia’s. This is what in defense is referred to as… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got the phrase… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Conservative political opinion in America cleaves to the tradition of the judge as passive interpreter, believing that his absolute loyalty to authoritative law is… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
So many times we come to Jesus in worship and ask Him for things that He already IS and has already done... What a… — Christy Nockels Copy Share Image
Those are decisions only the Lord will make. I believe the love of God is absolute. He said he gave his son for the… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
The only "definitive truth" for Buddhism is the absolute negation of any one truth as the Definitive Truth. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The nature of the Absolute is neither perceptible nor imperceptible; and with phenomena it is just the same. But to one who has discovered… — Huangbo Xiyun Copy Share Image