Quotes about ma
magic doe would-be
Without Leskov there would be no Bulgakov, no Chekhov, but also no Garca Mrquez and Julio Cortzar. . . . Leskov is the essential storyteller: he does not portray life, he creates it in all its wonder and terror and magic. Alberto Manguel
math logic theory
I never thought that others would take my theories so much more seriously than I did. Albert Einstein
matter annihilation billions
For every one billion particles of antimatter there were one billion and one particles of matter. And when the mutual annihilation was complete, one billionth remained - and that's our present universe.
makeup attachment special
I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by makeup a human being, and only a human being, without any special attachment to any state or national entity whatsoever.
math computer theory
Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.
math dark years
The years of searching in the dark for a truth that one feels but cannot express, the intense desire and the alternations of confidence and misgiving until one breaks through to clarity and understanding, are known only to him who has experienced them himself.
math noses wells
Mathematics are well and good but Nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.
matter vibrations energy
Concerning matter, we have been all wrong. What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. There is no matter.
maps use world
You can't use an old map to explore a new world.
math thinking skills
The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.
may obedience made
We cannot distinguish truth from falsehood, right from wrong, or know what obedience we owe to the magistrate, or what we may justly expect from him, unless we know what he is, why he is, and by whom he is made to be what he is.... I cannot know how to obey unless I know in what, and to whom; nor in what unless I know what ought to be commanded; nor what ought to be commanded unless I understand the original right of the commander, which is the great arcanum. Algernon Sidney
may majesty arses
If his Majesty is resolved to have my head, he may make a whistle of my arse if he pleases.
making-love photographer
When I make a picture, I make love. Alfred Stieglitz
marriage sorrow theism
When I hear that a friend has fallen into matrimony, I feel the same sorrow as if I had heard of his lapsing into theism. Algernon Charles Swinburne
matter form modification
Modification of form is admitted to be a matter of time Alfred Russel Wallace
may coats seamless
You may not divide the seamless coat of learning, Alfred North Whitehead
math errors facts
There is no more common error than to assume that, because prolonged and accurate mathematical calculations have been made, the application of the result to some fact of nature is absolutely certain.
math ordinary language
Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language.
matter juxtaposition deals
I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.
math organization imagination
The whole of mathematics consists in the organization of a series of aids to the imagination in the process of reasoning.
math intellectual world
Algebra is the intellectual instrument which has been created for rendering clear the quantitative aspects of the world.
may mood paradox
It is not paradox to say that in our most theoretical moods we may be nearest to our most practical applications.
majority morality given
What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.
math development may
The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit.
math spirit madness
The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.
marriage sex ease
The male's difficulties in his sexual relations after marriage include a lack of facility, of ease, or of suavity in establishing rapport in a sexual situation. Alfred Kinsey
may
Whatever you may say something is, it is not! Alfred Korzybski
may facts logic
Mathematics and logic have been proved to be one; a fact from which it seems to follow that mathematics may successfully deal with non-quantitative problems in a much broader sense than was suspected to be possible.
maps territory world
The map is not the territory... The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map...
manners courtesy persons
The greater person is one of courtesy. Alfred Lord Tennyson
may neighbor smooth
O Blackbird! sing me something well: While all the neighbors shoot thee round, I keep smooth plats of fruitful ground, Where thou may'st warble, eat and dwell.
mail six fans
My fan mail is enormous. Everyone is under six. Alexander Calder
may realizing virtue
We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition. Alex Comfort