John Stuart Mill Quotes
The application of algebra to geometry ... has immortalized the name of Descartes, and constitutes the greatest single step ever made in the progress of the exact sciences.
Quotes to Explore
-
I loved all of the 'Zenon' movies. Those were my jam mostly because of the fashion. I loved something about the space buns and the weird neon colors. I couldn't just wear that in real life because people would look weirdly at me, but maybe at a party or something.
-
There are three successive states of morality answering to the three principal stages of human life; the personal, the domestic, and the social stage.
-
Myrnin came in from the back room, carrying a load of books, which he dropped with a loud bang on the floor to glare at the two of them. "Excuse me," he said, "but when did my lab become appropriate for snogging?" "What's snogging?" Shane asked. "Ridiculous displays of inappropriate affection in front of me. Roughly translated. And what are you doing here?
-
One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.
-
When you expand your ability to see, you understand that there are a lot of false choices being offered.
-
Imagine if investors in Wal-Mart really cared about bribery at that company's overseas operations or safety standards at its overseas manufacturing plants. If investors pulled their capital, corporate leaders would have to respond.
-
The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
-
A mind dominated by positive emotions, becomes a favorable abode for the state of mind known as faith.
-
It must now atone in blood for its complicity in wickedness.
-
The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
-
He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
-
A man who limits his interests limits his life.
-
Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.
-
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-
If it were now to die, 'twere now to be most happy.
-
General rules are dangerous of application in particular instances.
-
Geometry is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind.
-
For a lot of children of immigrants, what happens is your parents want you to do something very linear that they can understand. I had an aptitude in sciences and never really questioned it.
-
I remember just before going onto the soundstage, I'd look in my dressing room mirror and stretch myself to my full 5'5" or 5'6 whatever it was-to make me appear taller and to make me able to dominate all the others and to mow them down with my size.
-
A lot of the problems of parenthood are universal. Yes, it's harder being younger and growing up yourself, but all those anxieties and problems are going to be faced by anyone at any age. When people hear about teenage parents and teenage pregnancy, they attribute a lot of personality traits to those individuals, which is just such a bizarre thing when you really think about it. Like, how does age and circumstance equate to some kind of personality trait?
-
The application of algebra to geometry ... has immortalized the name of Descartes, and constitutes the greatest single step ever made in the progress of the exact sciences.
