Invariant Quotes

#1. Spinoza had argued that God, synonymous with nature, was immutable and eternal, leaving no room for chance. Agreeing with Spinoza, Einstein sought the invariant rules governing nature's mechanisms. He was absolutely determined to prove that the world was absolutely determined.

Paul Halpern

#2. The problems of financing the universities and their intellectual freedom, threatened by political and bureaucratic interference, are problems which are invariant under the ism transformations: socialism, communism, capitalism, or any other ism or ology.

Serge Lang

#3. Poetic language features an iconic rather than a predominantly conventional relationship of form and content in which all language (and cultural) elements, variant as well as invariant, may be involved in the expression of the content.", "Analysis of the Poetic Text.

Yuri Lotman

#4. In reality, time doesn't pass; we pass. Time itself is invariant. It just is. Therefore, past and future aren't separate locations, the way New York and Paris are separate locations. And since the past isn't a location, you can't travel to it.

Michael Crichton

#5. This is not mathematics, it is theology.
(On being exposed to Hilbert's work in invariant theory.)

Paul Gordan

#6. the problem is then to develop a theory of invariance with respect to arbitrary linear transformations, in which, however, in contra-distinction to the case of affine geometry, we have a definite invariant quadratic form, viz. the metrical groundform once and for all as an absolute datum.

Hermann Weyl

#7. [Critical social science attempts] to determine when theoretical statements grasp invariant regularities of social action as such and when they express ideologically frozen relations of dependence that can in principle be transformed.

Jurgen Habermas

#8. I liked numbers because they were solid, invariant; they stood unmoved in a chaotic world.
There was in numbers and their relation something absolute, certain, not to be questioned, beyond doubt.

Oliver Sacks

#9. Thoroughly understand what it is to understand, and not only will you understand the broad lines of all there is to be understood but also you will possess a fixed base, an invariant pattern, opening upon all further developments of understanding,

Bernard Lonergan

#10. It's in an inland sea that the river of my life ended.

Fernando Pessoa

#11. We have many responsibilities, and one cannot expect the full blessings of a kind Providence if he neglects any major duty. A man has duties to his church, his home, his country, and his profession or job.

Ezra Taft Benson

#12. Updike worked this way, and I just kinda borrowed it from him. So the memoir will be relief from novel writing for a moment.

Rick Moody

#13. Rain is nature's art; umbrella is man's art. When you walk with your umbrella in a rainy day, you walk with a super art which is a combination of two different arts!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#14. Any time I write a new song, I am jazzed about it for like 24 hours and then I am over it and want to write another one.

Hunter Hayes

#15. I'm a really cautious person, so I don't let myself get into near-death experiences. I'm not into the idea of skydiving or anything.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

#16. Think of the poorest person you know and see if your next act will be of any use to him.

Mahatma Gandhi

#17. May the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely. 1 Thessalonians 5:23

Beth Moore

#18. My only fashion school was what I saw in the newspapers and on television

Jean Paul Gaultier

#19. The recognition of rights for women and minorities became a large part of my understanding of what this country is all about.

Faye Wattleton

#20. But then I'd miss that look on your face." "What look?" "Like you want to kick me and kiss me at the same time," he answered.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#21. The sad vicissitude of things.

Laurence Sterne

#22. I've always believed that hustle can make up for a lot of mistakes.

John Wooden