Formulae Quotes

• If one could only discover the unwritten bases of black magic and apply formulae to them, we would find that they were merely another form of science... perhaps less advance, perhaps more.

  

  Charles Beaumont
  • Science
  • Advance
  • Bases

• I presume that to the uninitiated the formulae will appear cold and cheerless; but let it be remembered that, like other mathematical formulae, they find their origin in the divine source of all geometry. Whether I shall have the satisfaction of taking part in their exposition, or whether that will remain for some more profound expositor, will be seen in the future.

  

  Benjamin Peirce
  • Future
  • Satisfaction
  • Remembered

• For a long time I listened to other people to decide whether I was still Christian or not, and I would sort of vet myself by the traditional formulae.

  

  Barbara Brown Taylor
  • Christian
  • Decide
  • Listened

• There is no such thing as a 'real' representation of 'reality.' Except, perhaps, in algebraic formulae.

  

  Claude Simon
  • Real
  • Reality
  • Representation