Incommensurable Quotes

#1. The realm of liberation is absolutely incommensurable with the relativities of higher and lower, better and worse, gain and loss, since these are all disadvantages of the ego.

Alan W. Watts

#2. Two magnitudes whether commensurable or incommensurable, balance at distances reciprocally proportional to the magnitudes.

Archimedes

#3. The power of thought, of idea, is incommensurable, is immeasurable. The world is dominated by thought.

Emile Coue

#4. It is probable that two proposed unknown rations are incommensurable because if many unknown rations are proposed it is most probable that any [one] would be incommensurable to any [other].

Nicole Oresme

#5. He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side.

Plato

#6. I sometimes wonder, however, whether in the case of modern atheism and theistic tradition what is at issue is the difference between two entirely incommensurable worlds, or at least two entirely incommensurable ways of understanding the world.

David Bentley Hart

#7. Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science.

Paul Nurse

#8. What if you find your soul mate ... at the wrong time?

Lauren Kate

#9. Law may prescribe that the male nipples be made equal to the female ones, but they still will not give milk.

Allan Bloom

#10. A sculptor is a person obsessed with the form and shape of things.

Henry Moore

#11. Even as we speak, time speeds swiftly away.

Horace