Formal Quotes
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Mathematicians can and do fill in gaps, correct errors, and supply more detail and more careful scholarship when they are called on or motivated to do so. Our system is quite good at producing reliable theorems that can be solidly backed up. It's just that the reliability does not primarily come from mathematicians formally checking formal arguments; it comes from mathematicians thinking carefully and critically about mathematical ideas.
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I think always my interest in making movies is to have something really technical mixed with something that was not so formal...something free.
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I am convinced that we as a body must conduct a formal and legitimate debate about election irregularities.
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It is odd, but on the infrequent occasions when I have been called upon in a formal place to play the bongo drums, the introducer never seems to find it necessary to mention that I also do theoretical physics.
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I began to write what I called 'rhythms' ie unrhymed pieces with no formal metrical scheme where the rhythm was created by a kind if inner chant... Later I was told I was writing 'free verse' or Vers libre.
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I'm the chairman of the intelligence committee. We don't only get formal briefings, but we collect our information from the intelligence community in a variety of ways.
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Although I was raised Jewish, my upbringing didn't include any formal religious education or training.
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A formal parsing algorithm should not always be used.
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Geez, I just played cricket because I loved the game. I never thought about it much, never really had any formal coaching.
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The rank of office is not what makes someone a leader. Leadership is the choice to serve others with or without any formal rank.
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Campion is a poet who knows that what a poet sees is nothing without a mixture of formal prowess and emotional insight.
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I don't think there are any pure Africans of the African Americans, but the African part of our history was pretty much taken away from us during slavery, so the 60s gave us a chance, because of the civil rights movement, to kind of re-examine and make some sort of formal connection to our African-ness.
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Management is formal authority given from above. Leadership is moral authority given from below and all around.
