Finite Simple Groups

Famous quotes containing the words finite, simple and/or groups:

    “For it is only the finite that has wrought and suffered; the infinite lies stretched in smiling repose.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “For the discerning intellect of Man,
    When wedded to this goodly universe
    In love and holy passion, shall find these
    A simple produce of the common day.
    MI, long before the blissful hour arrives,
    Would chant, in lonely peace, the spousal verse
    Of this great consummation—”
    —William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

    “In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.”
    —George Gurdjieff (c. 1877–1949)