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'There's a lot of mathematics in music. It's all in groups of eight, mate, y'know. The one thing that I may have in common with John is that the subject matter I do know, the driving part of my life, my work life, there's a point where structure and scaffolding is left behind and intuition takes over. That's the difference between John and the next 100 mathematicians. He's fully prepared to leave the scaffolding behind and get into the ether of the equation and find the answer quicker. The bane of his existence, however, is finding the proof.'
View quotes by Russell Crowe
Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
View quotes by Woody Allen
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
View quotes by Sir Isaac Newton
If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out. - Mansfield Park
View quotes by Jane Austen
Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.
View quotes by Bernard Baruch
Theology is the finding of bad reasons for things we are going to believe anyway.
View quotes by G E Moore
A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.
View quotes by Galbraith
Learning is finding out what you already know.
View quotes by Richard Bach
Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
View quotes by Lord Byron
There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right; they're the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting process. To be accepted, new ideas must survive the most rigorous standards of evidence and scrutiny.
View quotes by Carl Sagan
When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.
View quotes by Carl Sagan
I've never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back.
View quotes by Judy Garland
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
View quotes by André Gide
The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.
View quotes by Thomas Merton
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct. [Appearance and Reality, Preface]
View quotes by F H Bradley
Can you imagine? Finding out that you're going to be on two series at one time? I said to myself, my life is never going to be the same again. - on being cast for both Baywatch and Baywatch Nights
View quotes by Donna D'Errico
We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
View quotes by Amos Bronson Alcott
The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
View quotes by Gore Vidal
We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
View quotes by Virginia Woolf
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