Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Sanders Peirce

Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions.

Terri Blackstock

I want readers to rehearse that day when everything shatters and think through what they'll hang onto when that happens.

Alfred North Whitehead

To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.

If I pushed the poor person out onto the street and his wife or passerby called 911, there would be no charge, ... This is a punishment fine, not for services rendered.

He is the ironman. He's been a player for us since he stepped onto our campus.

Mamie Gummer

L.A. is... I always feel sort of abducted when I'm there, like I've stepped onto another planet where everyone looks the same.

Ciaran Hinds

Stuntwork... once, I've really only done one thing, which is take a punch and transport myself into the air onto a mat.

Matt Bomer

My favorite actors are people who I don't know anything about, and I can project any character onto them.

Sendhil Mullainathan

You can get pictures into what people are sort of thinking about others. Just go onto Google and type 'Why are Indians' and then look for the autocomplete.

We are going to get products onto the shelves as soon as possible.

John Updike

Bookstores are lonely forts, spilling light onto the sidewalk. They civilize their neighborhoods.

You're not going to be a superman every time you go out onto the field.

Felix Klein

It is well known that the central problem of the whole of modern mathematics is the study of transcendental functions defined by differential equations.

Eugene Wigner

The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and there is no rational explanation of it.

Harland Williams

The thing is, you never know with any movie how it's going to turn out. It's always a mystery - you'll do pages and pages of scenes that will never make it onto the screen.

The worry is that the problems with the patch may have prevented it from being successfully rolled out onto some vulnerable computers.

the window of opportunity for migrating will be when Vista comes onto the market.

Damien will be watching on TV but it's not the same. That's why I've been out to watch Slavia. But if there is a problem he sees that we don't see, I'm sure he'll get onto us.

Kevin Allen

He passed it onto his sister who is my wife and now it's in my house.

If he would have been 6-5, he never would have made it onto campus.

Lapo Elkann

I have the Italian flag embroidered onto all my dress-shirt cuffs. I am very proud to be Italian.

Leonardo da Vinci

No human investigation can claim to be scientific if it doesn't pass the test of mathematical proof.

John Polkinghorne

It is the faithfulness of God that allows epistemology to model ontology.

I'm optimistic, and I think that today will be the start of a process that will get us back onto the roadmap.

Janet Jackson

You don't have to hold onto the pain to hold onto the memory.

You could do projection work onto these other buildings. You'd need permission, of course. Unless you own them.

You got a lot of people targeting 1.12. People are hopping onto the train.

Marcus Aurelius

Infinity is a fathomless gulf, into which all things vanish.

Rene Descartes

We call infinite that thing whose limits we have not perceived, and so by that word we do not signify what we understand about a thing, but rather what we do not understand.