Famous quotes containing the words partial order, partial, order and/or relation:
“Both the man of science and the man of art live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it. Both, as a measure of their creation, have always had to do with the harmonization of what is new with what is familiar, with the balance between novelty and synthesis, with the struggle to make partial order in total chaos.... This cannot be an easy life.”
—J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904–1967)
“America is hard to see.
Less partial witnesses than he
In book on book have testified
They could not see it from outside....”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“True art tries not to attract attention—in order to be noticed.”
—José Bergamín (1895–1983)
“The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)