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«To most outsiders, modern mathematics is unknown territory. Its borders are protected by dense thickets of technical terms; its landscapes are a mass of indecipherable equations and incomprehensible concepts.»
Author: Ivars Peterson
| About:
Mathematics
| Keywords:
borders, concepts, dense, denser, Equations, incomprehensible, indecipherable, landscapes, outsider, outsiders, protected, technical, territory, thicket, thickets
«The theory of relativity worked out by Mr. Einstein, which is in the domain of natural science, I believe can also be applied to the political field. Both democracy and human rights are relative concepts - and not absolute and general.»
Author: Jiang Zemin
| Keywords:
applied, applied science, concepts, domain, Einstein, Human rights, natural science, political science, political theory, relative, right field, theory of, theory of relativity
«Strange and predatory and truly dangerous, car thieves and muggers -- they seem to jeopardize all our cherished concepts, even our self-esteem, our property rights, our powers of love, our laws and pleasures. The only relationship we seem to have with them is scorn or bewilderment, but they belong somewhere on the dark prairies of a country that is in the throes of self-discovery.»
Author: John Cheever
| Keywords:
bewilderment, cherished, concepts, jeopardize, jeopardized, mugger, muggers, prairie, prairies, predatory, property rights, scorn, self-discovery, self esteem, thieves, throe, throes
«No-one gets an iron-clad guarantee of success. Certainly, factors like opportunity, luck and timing are important. But the backbone of success is usually found in old-fashioned, basic concepts like hard work, determination, good planning and perseverance.»
Author: Mia Hamm
(Soccer Player)
| About:
Opportunity,
Success
| Keywords:
An iron, backbone, clad, concepts, factors, fashioned, guarantee, old fashioned, one iron, planning, timing
«Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts»
Author: Saint John Chrysostom
| About:
Poverty,
Reason
| Keywords:
absurdities, concepts, strangest, substitutes, trusts
«The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.»
«The language and concepts contained herein are guaranteed not to cause eternal torment in the place where the guy with the horns and pointed stick conducts his business»
Author: Frank Zappa
(Composer, Guitarist, Satirist, Song Writer)
| Keywords:
concepts, conducts, guaranteed, herein, horned, horns, horn in, pointed, stick, torment
«The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
| Keywords:
concepts, experiences, go through, here, out of print, printed, prints
«Times change and forms and their meanings alter. Thus new poems are necessary. Their forms must be discovered in the living language of their day, or old forms, embodying exploded concepts, will tyrannize over the imagination.»
Author: William Carlos Williams
(Poet)
| Keywords:
alter, concepts, embodying, exploded, meanings, poems, tyrannize, tyrannizes
«Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
concepts, creations, determined, external, externals, free, freeing, freer, freest, Free World, however, human, human mind, may, mind, physical, physical world, seem, uniquely