Top 28 Hans Reichenbach Quotes
#1. The statement that although the past can be recorded, the future cannot, is translatable into the statistical statement: Isolated states of order are always postinteraction states, never preinteraction states.
Hans Reichenbach
#2. We can ... treat only the geometrical aspects of mathematics and shall be satisfied in having shown that there is no problem of the truth of geometrical axioms and that no special geometrical visualization exists in mathematics.
Hans Reichenbach
#3. She looks just as music sounds, I think,' answered Anne.
L.M. Montgomery
#5. Absolute time would exist in a causal structure for which the concept indeterminate as to time order lends to a unique simultaneity, i.e., for which there is no finite interval of time between the departure and return of a first-signal ...
Hans Reichenbach
#6. 'Newhart' ran the longest, and it was great to have a regular role, but I run into a lot of film fans, and they ask me about 'Blade Runner.' I was grateful to be a part of that.
William Sanderson
#7. The differential element of non-Euclidean spaces is Euclidean. This fact, however, is analogous to the relations between a straight line and a curve, and cannot lead to an epistemological priority of Euclidean geometry, in contrast to the views of certain authors.
Hans Reichenbach
#8. As an actor, you try to bring as much of yourself to a part to try and create a feeling of authenticity and emotional truth and resonance.
Jesse Eisenberg
#10. If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such, the path of error is the path of truth.
Hans Reichenbach
#11. I am sentimental,' she said. 'I could dissect a koala but not its baby. I like the words damozel, eglantine, elegant. I love when you kiss my elongated white hand.
Vladimir Nabokov
#12. The mathematician uses an indirect definition of congruence, making use of the fact that the axiom of parallels together with an additional condition can replace the definition of congruence.
Hans Reichenbach
#13. The concept of congruence in Euclidean geometry is not exactly the same as that in non-Euclidean geometry ... Congruent means in Euclidean geometry the same as determining parallelism, a meaning which it does not have in non-Euclidean geometry.
Hans Reichenbach
#14. If I'm not a glorified prostitute, I don't know what one is.
J.M. Darhower
#15. We must ... maintain that mathematical geometry is not a science of space insofar as we understand by space a visual structure that can be filled with objects - it is a pure theory of manifolds.
Hans Reichenbach
#16. It appears that the solution of the problem of time and space is reserved to philosophers who, like Leibniz, are mathematicians, or to mathematicians who, like Einstein, are philosophers.
Hans Reichenbach
#17. To reveal a truth to a man unready to accept it is three sins at once. It makes him disbelieve in the truth, makes him think wrongly about you, and makes him say the truth is nonsense
- Hermis Tresmegistus, the founder of astronomy
Gerard Russell
#18. Equestrian, by the by, is the gayest word in the English language. In fact, I thought Brokeback Mountain should have been called Two Equestrians.
Lewis Black
#19. Philosophy is regarded by many as inseparable from speculation ... Philosophy has proceeded from speculation to science.
Hans Reichenbach
#21. Occasionally one speaks ... of signals or signal chains. It should be noted that the word signal means the transmission of signs and hence concerns the very principle of causal order ...
Hans Reichenbach
#22. I think that to a very great extent we are partners with the divine in this enterprise called history. That is an ongoing relationship, and there is absolutely no guarantee that things will automatically work out to our best advantage.
Chaim Potok
#23. Visual forms are not perceived differently from colors or brightness. They are sense qualities, and the visual character of geometry consists in these sense qualities.
Hans Reichenbach
#24. It is far more difficult ... to know when to sell a stock than when to buy.
Bernard Baruch
#25. Common to the two geometries is only the general property of one-to-one correspondence, and the rule that this correspondence determines straight lines as shortest lines as well as their relations of intersection.
Hans Reichenbach
#27. What is the use for a man to have at his disposal a large field of action, if within himself he remains confine to the narrow limits of his individuality.
African Spir
#28. You see, there is no more purpose or meaning in the world than you put into it.
Hans Reichenbach