Joseph Fourier Quotes

#1. Controlling someone by changing their brain is like trying to stop a hovercar by digging a ditch. If they think hard enough, they can fly right over.

Scott Westerfeld

#2. Mathematics compares the most diverse phenomena and discovers the secret analogies that unite them.

Joseph Fourier

#3. We want progress in medicine to be clear and unequivocal, but of course it rarely is. Every new treatment has gaping unknowns - for both patients and society - and it can be hard to decide what do do about them.

Atul Gawande

#4. Mathematical Analysis is as extensive as nature herself.

Joseph Fourier

#5. Words are the tools of 'to be' - of expression. They are completely built on the fact that you 'are,' and in order to express it, you have built a little alphabet, and you make your words from it.

Marcel Duchamp

#6. Because sometimes pain is knowing, and sometimes pain is sharing that knowledge with someone who loves you but can't do anything to help.

Lisa Gardner

#7. Inner peace is found by facing life squarely, solving its problems, and delving as far beneath its surface as possible to discover its verities and realities.

Peace Pilgrim

#8. True greatness is when your name is like ampere, watt, and fourier - when it's spelled with a lower case letter.

Richard Hamming

#9. Christians are not in bondage to do things as the world does, and moreover, the traditions and rudiments of men are not necessary to honor God.

Monica Johnson

#10. I'm a realist and I always have been.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#11. You smell." "Excuse me?" Well, just when she thought the guy was cute. She was gonna kick his ass.

Carrie Ann Ryan

#12. Thoughts that breathe life into us, not suck life from us.

Lysa TerKeurst

#13. God becomes man becomes fish becomes barnacle goose becomes featherbed mountain.

James Joyce

#14. We find or invent the cleverest means of attributing our sins to anything or anyone outside of ourselves.

Paul Washer

#15. There I was, poised on the edge of the high diving board of life, and the pool kept moving around.

Kristine K. Stevens

#16. That's how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live in its reality.

Jeff VanderMeer

#17. The profound study of nature is the most fertile source of mathematical discovery.

Joseph Fourier

#18. Most people think they want more money than they really do, and they settle for a lot less than they could get

Earl Nightingale

#19. Between the wolf in the tall grass and the wolf in the tall story there is a shimmering go-between. That go-between, that prism, is the art of literature.

Vladimir Nabokov