Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Hirsch

Now, that can be a traditional form or it can be something you're inventing. It can be the development of a metaphor, the working through of a metaphor.

David Hilbert

No one shall expel us from the paradise which Cantor has created for us. Expressing the importance of Cantor's set theory in the development of mathematics.

Carl Jung

In the history of the collective as in the history of the individual, everything depends on the development of consciousness.

Jan Eliasson

Without peace there is no development, and without development there is no peace

Alain Aspect

The development of quantum mechanics early in the twentieth century obliged physicists to change radically the concepts they used to describe the world.

Brian Behlendorf

In true open source development, theres lots of visibility all the way through the development process.

Jane Jacobs

poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes. Analogically, heat is a result of active processes; it has causes. But cold is not the result of any processes; it is only the absence of heat. Just so, the great cold of poverty and economic stagnation is merely the absence of economic development.

Ben Bernanke

Developments in financial markets can have broad economic effects felt by many outside the markets.

Ban Ki-moon

We must follow the wisdom of the Brundtland Report. We must pursue development that meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.

Benoit Mandelbrot

I went to the computer and tried to experiment. I introduced a very high level of experiment in very pure mathematics.

Paul Singer

Opacity on extreme levels is not addressed anywhere, including Dodd-Frank.

Isabelle Arthur

Unfortunately, this route had not met profitability levels that are necessary to sustain operations.

Steve McManaman

I experienced the heat when I was playing for Madrid. If we went to places like Sevilla early on in the season it was unbearable. Usually you can feel it on pre-season tours in places like Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Jakarta. The humidity levels are unreal, but this is different, the first game of the World Cup.

Greg Miller

He just sets new levels of expectations for himself.

DJ Jazzy Jeff

As a DJ I am never 100 percent in charge of the sound. The sound levels are controlled by someone at the sound board of the venue.

Dexter Scott King

Veganism has given me a higher level of awareness and spirituality, primary because the energy associated with eating has shifted to other areas. If you’re violent to yourself by putting [harmful] things into your body that violate its spirit, it will be difficult not to perpetuate that [violence] onto someone else.

David Allen

Without a gut-level sense that you are ultimately in control of what's happening to you, you won't even consider the option that you could manage it better.

David Deutsch

The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy, but the ones that contain the deepest explanations.

Confucius

If an urn lacks the characteristics of an urn, how can we call it an urn?

Mark Twain

There is not a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.

Isaac Asimov

It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works.

Gregory Bateson

In no system which shows mental characteristics can any part have unilateral control over the whole. In other words, the mental characteristics of the system are imminent, not in some part, but in the system as a whole.

John Maynard Keynes

The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.

Samuel Johnson

An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty.

William Hazlitt

The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.