March 07, 2012
Quote by Erika Eleniak
He is in a gunfight right now. I'm gonna have to take a message.
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March 05, 2012
Thomas Aquinas quotes
The celestial bodies are the cause of all that takes place in the sublunar world.
The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.
Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.
I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it.
Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious.
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March 04, 2012
Quote by Plotinus
Knowledge has three degrees - opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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March 03, 2012
Top 5 quotes by Douglas Jerrold
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
A strange volume of real life in the daily packet of the postman. Eternal love and instant payment!
Dress it as we may, feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it, what is war, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform?
A blessed companion is a book, - a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend,... a book that, at a touch, pours its heart into our own.
Nothing can be truer than fairy wisdom. It is as true as sunbeams.
March 01, 2012
Hermann Weyl quotes
My work has always tried to unite the true with the beautiful and when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.
A modern mathematical proof is not very different from a modern machine, or a modern test setup: the simple fundamental principles are hidden and almost invisible under a mass of technical details.
Logic is the hygiene the mathematician practices to keep his ideas healthy and strong.
The constructs of the mathematical mind are at the same time free and necessary. The individual mathematician feels free to define his notions and set up his axioms as he pleases. But the question is will he get his fellow mathematician interested in the constructs of his imagination. We cannot help the feeling that certain mathematical structures which have evolved through the combined efforts of the mathematical community bear the stamp of a necessity not affected by the accidents of their historical birth. Everybody who looks at the spectacle of modern algebra will be struck by this complementarity of freedom and necessity. 1951.
Our federal income tax law defines the tax y to be paid in terms of the income x; it does so in a clumsy enough way by pasting several linear functions together, each valid in another interval or bracket of income. An archeologist who, five thousand years from now, shall unearth some of our income tax returns together with relics of engineering works and mathematical books, will probably date them a couple of centuries earlier, certainly before Galileo and Vieta.
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