Famous quotes containing the words halting, problem, relationship and/or theorem:
“Of the two
who feign anger,
sulk in mock sleep,
and give ear
to the others halting sighs,
whos the winner?”
—Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)
“The thinking person has the strange characteristic to like to create a fantasy in the place of the unsolved problem, a fantasy that stays with the person even when the problem has been solved and truth made its appearance.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (17491832)
“Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.”
—Albert Camus (19131960)
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