Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ellen Hopkins

Have you ever once in your life reached out to touch infinity?

Ludwig Feuerbach

In the consciousness of the infinite, the conscious subject has for his object the infinity of his own nature.

Aristotle

Something is infinite if, taking it quantity by quantity, we can always take something outside.

Simone de Beauvoir

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.

Rainer Maria Rilke

It is part of the nature of every definitive love that sooner or later it can reach the beloved only in infinity.

Norman Cousins

Infinity converts the possible into the inevitable.

Matsuo Basho

the universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being.

Pat Metheny

What I look for in musicians is a sense of infinity

Lucretius

There can be no centre in infinity.

William James

A good hypothesis in science must have other properties than those of the phenomenon it is immediately invoked to explain, otherwise it is not prolific enough.

Roger Ascham

Marke all Mathematicall heades, which be onely and wholy bent to those sciences, how solitarie they be themselues, how vnfit to liue with others, & how vnapte to serue in the world.

Samuel Johnson

The business of the poet, said Imlac, is to examine, not the individual, but the species.

Friedrich Engels

Without analysis, no synthesis.

Mitt Romney

I bathe in statistics.

Art Buchwald

The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are killed in automobile accidents than are killed by buffalo.

Douglas Adams

The most misleading assumptions are the ones you don't even know you're making.

Albert Einstein

If I can't picture it, I can't understand it.

Ronald Fisher

If ... we choose a group of social phenomena with no antecedent knowledge of the causation or absence of causation among them, then the calculation of correlation coefficients, total or partial, will not advance us a step toward evaluating the importance of the causes at work.

William Farmer

It's a lot of work, but this is the kind of thing you have to do when you put a new program in; it's just inevitable and you learn to live with it and do what you need to do and move on.

Robert Towne

There must have been something inevitable about it because we got it done. I lived with (the book) for 20 years when I didn't write (the adaptation), and when I did write it, I lived with it for the next 10, 12 years.

Bob Lutz

The electrification of the automobile is inevitable.

Katrina Kelner

Something like this is probably inevitable for most journals.

Jay Farrar

but at this point it seems kind of inevitable or unstoppable.

Jorge Chabat

With all the money and power of the drug cartels, it was inevitable the AFI would become corrupted.