Etc Quote by William Rowan Hamilton

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing…

— Thomas Carlyle

To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

— Albert Einstein

“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

“Such is life, imaginary or otherwise: a continuous parting of ways, a constant flux of approximation and distanciation, lines of fate intersecting at a…

— Sol Luckman

Quaternions came from Hamilton after his really good work had been done, and though beautifully ingenious, have been an unmixed evil to those who…

— Lord Kelvin

A sickness ... defines margins, crystallizes the shape of things.

— Martha Ostenso

The Severing is a catastrophe: an event that does not take place 'at' a certain 'point' in linear time, but a wave that ripples…

— Timothy Morton

To my mind any phenomenon is paracinematic if it shares one element with cinema, e.g., modularity with respect to space and time.

— Hollis Frampton

The next grand extensions of mathematical physics will, in all likelihood, be furnished by quaternions.

— Peter Tait

That which is produced with intention has passed over from non-existence to existence.

— Maimonides

Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains.

— Anonymous

A great deal of our math, science, philosophy, and everyday behavior presupposes that stability and equilibria are the "default" states, and everything else involves…

— Dale Jamieson