Ifs Quote by Rene Thom Download Open image “If one must choose between rigour and meaning, I shall unhesitatingly choose the latter.” — Rene Thom ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ifs Inspirational Latter Math Rigour
In basic research, intellectual rigor and sentimental freedom necessarily alternate. — Victor Vasarely Copy Share Image
By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It is graceful in a man to think and to speak with propriety, to act with deliberation, and in every occurrence of life to… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“What is above all needed is to let the meaning choose the word, and not the other way around. In prose, the worst thing… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“When I say something, I mean what I say, despite what a dictionary says I mean. Meanings of words are slaves that I put… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I am not as concerned about choosing the right words as I am in letting the words flow naturally. — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
In writing, I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth, except when it is attended with inconvenience. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Your true meaning cannot be grasped or captured by words. You can never be equated with any words, because you are prior to words. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Topology is precisely the mathematical discipline that allows the passage from local to global... — Rene Thom Copy Share Image
Catastrophe Theory is-quite likely-the first coherent attempt (since Aristotelian logic) to give a theory on analogy. When narrow-minded scientists object to Catastrophe Theory that… — Rene Thom Copy Share Image
The purely formal language of geometry describes adequately the reality of space. We might say, in this sense, that geometry is successful magic. I… — Rene Thom Copy Share Image
Quantum mechanics, with its leap into statistics, has been a mere palliative for our ignorance — Rene Thom Copy Share Image
The world of ideas is not revealed to us in one stroke; we must both permanently and unceasingly recreate it in our consciousness. — Rene Thom Copy Share Image
“At a time where so many scholars are calculating, is it not desirable that some, who can, dream?” — René Thom Copy Share Image
All models divide naturally...into two a priori parts: one is kinematics, whose aim is to parameterize the forms of the states of the process… — Rene Thom Copy Share Image
The importance of the "New Mathematics" lies mainly in the fact that it has taught us the difference between the disc and the circle. — Rene Thom Copy Share Image
At a time when so many scholars in the world are calculating, is it not desirable that some, who can, dream ? — Rene Thom Copy Share Image
Women still, when they have breast cancer, go to work; they still lead their lives. They have to. I just did what I was… — Monica Potter Copy Share Image
Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation.… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
If you restore a car, and you're making money, then you're doing it wrong. — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
