Cassius Jackson Keyser Quotes

Mathematics is, in many ways, the most precious response that the human spirit has made to the call of the infinite.

Cassius Jackson Keyser

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• My silver cord – the link between my body and my spirit – was extremely sensitive. It was what allowed me to sense dreamscapes at a distance. It could also snap me back into my skin.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Body
  • Spirit
  • Distance

• I do not believe in the eternity of the spirit. That contradicts my ideology.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • Believe
  • Spirit
  • Eternity

• I am a free spirit. I tell the truth, and I like to mix it up.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Truth
  • Free
  • Spirit

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

  

  E. T. Bell
  • More
  • Mathematics
  • Abstract

• 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

• 'I wish I had never been born,' she said. 'What are we born for?' 'For infinite happiness,' said the Spirit. 'You can step out into it at any moment...'

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Happiness
  • Spirit
  • Moment

• I am moved by the spirit of Angolans and the work UNICEF is doing, but I am saddened by the hardships I have seen, and the fact that a little flexing of financial muscle from rich countries could do so much.

  

  Alyssa Milano
  • Work
  • Spirit
  • Financial

• It is important that when we are engaged in admonition or exhortation or confrontation with a brother who is overcome in sin, we call attention to the truth in an extraordinarily compassionate and tender and loving spirit.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Important
  • Truth
  • Attention

• War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.

  

  Alexander Berkman
  • War
  • True
  • Courage

• I'm just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Children
  • Family
  • Spirit

• Constitution is not a mere lawyers document, it is a vehicle of Life, and its spirit is always the spirit of Age.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Life
  • Age
  • Spirit

• When we love, we see the infinite in the finite. We find the Creator in the creation.

  

  Eliphas Levi
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Creation

• We dance to fall in love with the spirit in all things, to wipe out memory or transform it into moves that nobody else can make because they didn’t live it.

  

  Gabrielle Roth
  • Live
  • Fall
  • Dance

• God deliver me from the dread asbestos of “other things.” Saturate me with the oil of the Spirit that I may be aflame.

  

  Jim Elliot
  • May
  • Spirit
  • Oil

• In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Science
  • Mathematics
  • Department

• Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.

  

  Plato
  • Spirit
  • Laws
  • Good Men

• There two things that are infinite, human stupidity and the universe, I don't know about the universe.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Universe
  • Things
  • Human

• The number of natural hypothesis that can explain any given phenomena is infinite.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Natural
  • Infinite
  • Explain

• Now my charms are all o'erthrown, And what strength I have's mine own, Which is most faint: now, 'tis true, Or sent to Naples. Let me not, Since I have my dukedom got And pardon 'd the deceiver, dwell In this bare island by your spell; I must be here confined by you, But release me from my bands With the help of your good hands: Gentle breath of yours my sails Must fill, or else my project fails, Which was to please: now I want Spirits to enforce, art to enchant, And my ending is despair, Unless I be relieved by prayer, Which pierces so, that it assaults Mercy itself, and frees all faults. As you from crimes would pardon'd be, Let your indulgence set me free.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Art
  • Spirit
  • Helping

• How many ideas have there been in the history of man which were unthinkable ten years before they appeared?

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • History
  • Ideas
  • Appeared

• What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • History
  • Taken
  • Humor

• Mathematics is, in many ways, the most precious response that the human spirit has made to the call of the infinite.

  

  Cassius Jackson Keyser
  • Spirit
  • Mathematics
  • Infinite