Principia Mathematica Quotes

#1. He [Russell] said once, after some contact with the Chinese language, that he was horrified to find that the language of Principia Mathematica was an Indo-European one.

J.E. Littlewood

#2. Well it was not exactly a dissertation in logic, at least not the kind of logic you would find in Whitehead and Russell's Principia Mathematica for instance. It looked more like mathematics; no formalized language was used.

Alonzo Church

#3. I am delighted to know that Principia Mathematica can now be done by machinery ... I am quite willing to believe that anything in deductive logic can be done by machinery.

Bertrand Russell

#4. In 1687, when Sir Isaac Newton published his Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, probably the most important single work ever published in the physical sciences.

Stephen Hawking

#5. In the timeless and universal manner of authors conversing in public places, he did not fail to mention its title, Volume III of Principia Mathematica entitled, The System of the World, available shortly, where books are sold.

Neal Stephenson

#6. But at last I came to understand that I was making it too complicated. For you, this is no mingling at all; for you the Book of Revelation, the ramblings of Hermes Trismegistus, and Principia Mathematica are all signatures torn from the same immense Book.

Neal Stephenson

#7. "I do not ask for any crown
But that which all may win;
Nor try to conquer any world
Except the world within."

Louisa May Alcott

#8. We are relatives at the village and yet we become strangers in the city

Thabo Katlholo

#9. Those who wish to punish the current and future generations for the inequities of a generation long gone, and who equate justice with revenge, are the most dangerous people in the world.

Dean Koontz

#10. Be proud to be out of your mind and out of control.

Eminem

#11. Christ for the world, for the world needs Christ!

Eric Liddell

#12. Outside of London especially, I can't go anywhere without people buying me a drink. There are quite a lot of people who know me from The Vicar Of Dibley and are big Dibley fans, but they don't have things to shout at me from that show.

Roger Lloyd-Pack

#13. A society built upon a foundation of vengeance is a society doomed to destroy itself.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#14. I believe that individuals nowadays are probably more aware of their inner loneliness than has ever been true before in history.

Carl R. Rogers

#15. As far as my career or my university or my hometown went, I was on the bus out of town at the right time because I knew to walk away before I was pushed out.

Ruby Wax

#16. If you want to become something, achieve something in life, then always listen to your heart.

Shahrukh Khan

#17. I believe that for his escape he took advantage of the migration of a flock of wild birds.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery