Charles Proteus Steinmetz Quotes

Mathematics is the most exact science, and its conclusions are capable of absolute proof. But this is so only because mathematics does not attempt to draw absolute conclusions. All mathematical truths are relative, conditional. In E. T. Bell Men of Mathematics, New York: Simona and Schuster, 1937.

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• I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.

  

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• The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method may be capable of still further extension and improvement.

  

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• Books are humanity in print.

  

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• I'm happy riding horses and getting out shooting my gun, things like that.

  

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• For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer.

  

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• Many support what I am doing.

  

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• Christianity has been one of the most powerful causes of democracy, but the conscious influence of the Church has more widely been exerted against democracy than for it.

  

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• The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

  

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• The part always has a tendency to reunite with its whole in order to escape from its imperfection.

  

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• Technology forced me to divorce a pixie and remarry a pixel.

  

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• Business is other people's money.

  

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• A riot is the language of the unheard.

  

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• I was utterly without worldly ambition because I knew that all that was needed for a rich, full life was a few shillings a week with which to buy SF magazines and beer.

  

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• Basically, nice guys can finish last.

  

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• When I left the house to become an actress, my mother literally flung her body across the door and said, 'You're killing me!' It was a very strict household. That can be okay, but there was also no nourishment, either.

  

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• Mathematics is the most exact science, and its conclusions are capable of absolute proof. But this is so only because mathematics does not attempt to draw absolute conclusions. All mathematical truths are relative, conditional. In E. T. Bell Men of Mathematics, New York: Simona and Schuster, 1937.

  

  Charles Proteus Steinmetz
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