Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Logic, too, also rests on assumptions that do not correspond to anything in the real world, e.g., on the assumption that there areequal things, that the same thing is identical at different points in time: but this science arose as a result of the opposite belief (that such things actually exist in the real world). And it is the same with mathematics, which would certainly never have arisen if it had been understood from the beginning that there is no such thing in nature as a perfectly straight line, a true circle, and absolute measure.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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God created everything by number, weight and measure.
Isaac Newton
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Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.
Baruch Spinoza
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Measure what can be measured, and make measureable what cannot be measured.
Galileo Galilei
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And you read your emily dickinson, And I my robert frost. And we note our place with bookmarkers That measure what weve lost.
Paul Simon
Simon & Garfunkel
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I've laid down with love and woke up with lies. What's it all, worth only the heart can measure.
Stevie Nicks
Fleetwood Mac
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I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
Wally Lamb
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Astronomy leads us to a unique event, a universe which was created out of nothing, and delicately balanced to provide exactly the conditions required to support life. In the absence of an absurdly improbable accident, the observations of modern science seem to suggest an underlying, one might say, supernatural plan.
Arno Penzias
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The largest cultural menace in America is the conformity of the intellectual cliques which, in education as well as the arts, are out to impose upon the nation their modish fads and fallacies, and have nearly succeeded in doing so. In this cultural issue, we are, without reservations, on the side of excellence (rather than "newness") and of honest intellectual combat (rather than conformity).
William Francis Buckley
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There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.
Barbara Kruger
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To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe