Von Mises Yield

Famous quotes containing the words von and/or yield:

“It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

“Like most vigorous-minded men, seeing that there was no stopping-place between dogma and negation, he preferred to accept dogma. Of all weaknesses he most disliked timed and half-hearted faith. He would rather have jumped at once to Strong’s pure denial, than yield an inch to the argument that a mystery was to be paltered with because it could not be explained.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)