Finite Difference Nodes

Famous quotes containing the words finite, difference and/or nodes:

    Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a cup which runneth over, rather a finite vessel from which the more one sister drinks, the less is left for the others.
    Elizabeth Fishel (20th century)

    No burst of nuclear phenomenon
    That put an end to what was going on
    Could make much difference to the dead and gone.
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    There are characters which are continually creating collisions and nodes for themselves in dramas which nobody is prepared to act with them. Their susceptibilities will clash against objects that remain innocently quiet.
    George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)