Fine Structure Constant

Famous quotes containing the words fine, structure and/or constant:

    ... there is nothing so sad as lack of fine manners in a gentleman, except the lack of them in a lady.
    Mrs. H. O. Ward (1824–1899)

    The syntactic component of a grammar must specify, for each sentence, a deep structure that determines its semantic interpretation and a surface structure that determines its phonetic interpretation.
    Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)

    Courage, of all national qualities, is the most precarious; because it is exerted only at intervals, and by a few in every nation; whereas industry, knowledge, civility, may be of constant and universal use, and for several ages, may become habitual to the whole people.
    David Hume (1711–1776)