Top 28 Doxiadis Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Doxiadis

#1. (which has inspired at least one novel, Apostolos Doxiadis's Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture29).

John Derbyshire

#2. Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

Edna Ferber

#3. We don't know how to insult you any more' (Inter fan banner, directed at their own team)

John Foot

#4. The things that cannot be talked about logically are the only ones which are truly important.

Apostolos Doxiadis

#5. The meaning is the ending.

Apostolos Doxiadis

#6. The trusts and combinations - the communism of pelf - whose machinations have prevented us from reaching the success we deserved, should not be forgotten nor forgiven.

Grover Cleveland

#7. It does not have to mean a literal fifty-fifty or a day-by-day score-keeping, but you'll know when the child-care work is equally shared. You'll know by your lack of resentment. Because when there is true equality, resentment does not exist. And

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#8. Ah, the superior masochism of the privileged.

Apostolos Doxiadis

#9. Time was when people used to brag about how old they were - and I am old enough to remember it.

Thomas Sowell

#10. It is difficult to walk at one and the same time many paths of life.

Pythagoras

#11. My contention is that especially young, recently trained engineers are in a position to recognize and to react on a presumptive anomaly: They are trained within the technological frame but have low enough inclusion to question the basic assumptions of that frame.

Wiebe E. Bijker

#12. married. Edgar went back into the parlor

Amy Bloom

#13. The oldest story around: Instinct, Emotion, and Habit get the better of human beings.

Apostolos Doxiadis

#14. Different artists are talking about the laws that exist and how they need to be fixed so that compensation does happen to a far fairer level. And I agree with that.

Stevie Wonder

#15. Love dies by steps. The footfalls of fear, resentment, anger, and spite kill love, little by little. It withers. It tarnishes. It passes away, poisoned, ill, and wounded beyond all power to heal.

Mark T. Barnes

#16. Well, the Dean has asked me to speak on "The Role of Logic in Human Affairs". Of course, if I take the injunction literally you shall hear the shortest lecture in recorded history!

Apostolos Doxiadis

#17. That's what I love about acting, you get to find little pieces of yourself in every character you play.

Julianna Margulies

#18. Put a man on the brink of the abyss and - in the unlikely event that she doesn't fall into it - he will become a mystic or a madman ... Which is probably the same thing!

Apostolos Doxiadis

#19. Puppets seem like vampires sometimes. They live, and you're depleted.

Henry Selick

#20. Most of the time - at the Grammys for example - a DJ will perform with just their hands in the air because they can't do anything and that makes it a little awkward, I think.

Tiesto

#21. All the facts of science aren't enough to understand the world's meaning. For this, you must step outside the world."
"Without language of thought, how can you understand anything?"
"Who knows, maybe by whistling?

Apostolos Doxiadis

#22. Money corrupts so, best give it to the already corrupted.

Apostolos Doxiadis

#23. When Logic congeals into all-encompassing and perfect-seeming theories, then it can actually become a very evil con trick. Wittgenstein has a point, you see: 'All the facts of science are not enough to understand the world's meaning!

Apostolos Doxiadis