Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes

Irrefragability, thy name is mathematics.

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• I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto.

  

  Walter Kohn
  • Find
  • Mathematics
  • Toronto

• Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are a form of money that's a stable field that the government can't destroy and can't distort. Because its creation is governed by the laws of mathematics. It can't happen any faster or slower than a certain rate, and it all sort of self-adjusts.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Money
  • Creation
  • Mathematics

• My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Problem
  • Right
  • Names

• Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Mathematics
  • Taught
  • Pure

• Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Music
  • Art
  • Poetry

• Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Words
  • Relationship
  • Poetry

• I still remember asking my high school guidance teacher for permission to take a second year of algebra instead of a fifth year of Latin. She looked down her nose at me and sneered, 'What lady would take mathematics instead of Latin?'

  

  Nancy Roman
  • School
  • She
  • Remember

• The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • More
  • Mathematics
  • Abstract

• Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.

  

  Maimonides
  • Study
  • Logic
  • Perfection

• The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Step
  • Mathematics
  • Elegance

• When I was shooting in Pollachi, I had tried out a lot of local food, most of them I don't remember the names of.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Remember
  • Food
  • Names

• I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

  

  James Brown
  • Music
  • Names
  • Tunes

• My name, Diana Ross, is my name and nobody should be able to use that for exploitative purposes but me.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Purpose
  • Should
  • Able

• Right. I’ve been missing Nutty McFang anyway.” “Stop making up names for him.” “What about Count Crackula?” “Just stop.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Up
  • Stop
  • Missing

• French name. English accent. American school. Anna confused.

  

  An Na
  • School
  • American
  • English

• The holy name of Krishna has extraordinary spiritual potency because the name of God is nondifferent from God Himself.

  

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
  • God
  • Spiritual
  • Names

• Those who deplore our militants, who exhort patience in the name of a false peace, are in fact supporting segregation and exploitation. They would have social peace at the expense of social and racial justice. They are more concerned with easing racial tension than enforcing racial democracy.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Peace
  • Justice
  • Democracy

• The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.

  

  Andrew Wiles
  • Good
  • Science
  • Problem

• Though a skilled mathematician, Alfred Marshall used mathematics sparingly. He saw that excessive reliance on this instrument might lead us astray in pursuit of intellectual toys, imaginary problems not conforming to the conditions of real life: and further, might distort our sense of proportion by causing us to neglect factors that could not easily be worked up in the mathematical machine.

  

  Arthur Cecil Pigou
  • Life
  • Real
  • Mathematics

• I have gone through so many examinations of what a hero is, between the World War II stuff and the astronaut stuff.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Hero
  • World War II
  • Astronaut

• People are tied together and yet isolated from each other by invisible threads of rhythm and hidden walls of time. Time is... a primary organizer of all activities, a synthesizer and integrator, a way of handling priorities and categorizing experience, a feedback mechanism for how things are going, a measuring rod against which competence, effort, and achievement are judged as well as a special message system revealing how people really feel about each other and whether or not they can get along.

  

  Edward T. Hall
  • People
  • Time
  • Experience

• Irrefragability, thy name is mathematics.

  

  Willard Van Orman Quine
  • Names
  • Mathematics