Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rudyard Kipling

I wasted my substance, I know I did, on riotous living, so I did, but there's nothing on record to show I did more than my betters have done.

Yngwie Malmsteen

Fast is only cool if it's melodic and has substance.

Norman O. Brown

The human body is not a thing or a substance, given, but a continuous creation.

Marcus Aurelius

Constantly contemplate the whole of time and the whole of substance, and consider that all individual things as to substance are a grain of a fig, and as to time the turning of a gimlet .

Sean William Scott

As I've gotten older, I've become attracted to things that have substance.

Thomas Aquinas

God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter.

Paul Davies

The language of chemistry simply does not mesh with that of biology. Chemistry is about substances and how they react, whereas biology appeals to concepts such as information and organisation. Informational narratives permeate biology.

Mahatma Gandhi

Hinduism is like the Ganga, pure and unsullied at its source but taking in its course the impurities in the way. Even like the Ganga it is beneficent in its total effect. It takes a provincial form in every province, but the inner substance is retained everywhere.

Hermann Weyl

Before you generalize, formalize, and axiomatize there must be mathematical substance.

Russell Hoban

More and more I'm aware that the permutations are not unlimited.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

All mathematics is tautology.

Gabriel Marcel

Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.

Lord Kelvin

Mathematics is the only true metaphysics.

Gustave Flaubert

Tout ce qu'on invente est vrai, soi-en sure. La poesie est une chose aussi precise que la geometrie.

John Maynard Smith

Mathematics is so much easier than words mathematics makes things clear that words merely muddle and confuse and mess up.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

In mathematics there are no true controversies.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Mathematics is concerned only with the enumeration and comparison of relations.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

Karl Marx

In my free time I do differential and integral calculus.

Margaret Atwood

A fist is more than the sum of its fingers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself.

Lady Gaga

If there was some sort of mathematical equation for beauty, I don’t know if I would be the algorithm. I’m not a supermodel. That’s not what I do. What I do is music. I want my fans to feel the way I do, to know what they have to offer is just as important, more important, than what’s happening on the outside.

Paul Dirac

It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment.

Paul McCartney

Bach was so mathematical and I liked this idea that you could have one instrument going, 'One, two, three, four', and then you have another instrument going, [double time] 'One, two, three four', and another instrument going, [doubled again] 'One, two, three, four, one, two, three, four', so you could add twos and fours and eighths, and that happens a lot in Bach.

Chad Kroeger

There is a mathematical formula to why you got famous. It isn’t some magical thing that just started happening.

Charles Lindbergh

Under the federal reserve act, panics are scientifically created. The present panic is the first scientifically created one, worked out as we figured, a mathematical equation.

Augusten Burroughs

I knew that he was as reliable as a mathematical formula.