Large Cardinal Axioms

Famous quotes containing the words large, cardinal and/or axioms:

    The thirst to know and understand,
    A large and liberal discontent.
    Sir William Watson (1858–1935)

    What people don’t realize is that intimacy has its conventions as well as ordinary social intercourse. There are three cardinal rules—don’t take somebody else’s boyfriend unless you’ve been specifically invited to do so, don’t take a drink without being asked, and keep a scrupulous accounting in financial matters.
    —W.H. (Wystan Hugh)

    “I tell you the solemn truth that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.”
    Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)