William Rowan Hamilton Quotes
I regard it as an inelegance, or imperfection, in quaternions, or rather in the state to which it has been hitherto unfolded, whenever it becomes or seems to become necessary to have recourse to x, y, z, etc.
William Rowan Hamilton
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Evil is only imperfection, that which is not complete, which is becoming, but has not yet found its end.
Annie Besant
Public policy is a study in imperfection. It involves imperfect people, with imperfect information, facing deeply imperfect choices - so it's not surprising that they're getting imperfect results.
Jake Sullivan
I don't want to call myself a perfectionist, because perfection is imperfection.
Ne-Yo
Im attracted to things that are challenging and fun and interesting, and it certainly seems that audiences enjoy them as well.
Kevin Spacey
When I see something, I know why something's funny or seems to be funny. But in the end it's just another picture as far as I'm concerned.
Garry Winogrand
The campaign against polygamy, around which a lot of anti-Mormon sentiment was organized, seems horrific to me.
Andrew Solomon
The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.
Andrew Wiles
Perhaps one never seems so much at ones ease as when one has to play a part.
Oscar Wilde
We learn as much by others' failings as by their teachings. Examples of imperfection is just as useful for achieving perfection as are models of competence and perfection.
Madeleine de Souvre
The reality is, I like imperfection. You take away from the world when you're not yourself. Whatever is unique and special about you was designed by God. And when you try to be someone else, we don't get you. Who knows what you would have contributed to the world had you just been yourself, if you had just celebrated who you are and just walked boldly?
Queen Latifah
I struggle with reading a bit. I'm slightly dyslexic, so reading takes me quite a while, and in general, I'm not a big book reader at all. And something like 'Game of Thrones' seems very daunting to me!
Thomas Brodie-Sangster
A mind is accustomed to mathematical deduction, when confronted with the faulty foundations of astrology, resists a long, long time, like an obstinate mule, until compelled by beating and curses to put its foot into that dirty puddle.
Johannes Kepler
I'm not that obsessed with making representations of ugliness. Everything I've seen is beautiful.
Otto Dix
Act in such a way that you will be worthy of being happy.
Immanuel Kant
Even when we were standing in church and I was getting ready to take my vow I can remember wishing that you were standing there instead of him.
Nicholas Sparks
Perfect beauty implies perfect simplicity, a quality that at first sight does not arouse the emotions which we feel before gigantic works, objects whose very disproportion constitutes an element of beauty.
Eugene Delacroix
Work, work, work, but what mark do we leave, what point do we make? People who are too beholden to work become like erasers: as things move forward, they leave in their wake no trace of themselves.
Yann Martel
I regard it as an inelegance, or imperfection, in quaternions, or rather in the state to which it has been hitherto unfolded, whenever it becomes or seems to become necessary to have recourse to x, y, z, etc.
William Rowan Hamilton
