Quotes About Alembert

#1. People don't want to talk about death, just like they don't want to talk about computer security. Maybe I should have named my workstation Fear. People are so motivated by fear.

Dan Farmer

#2. Algebra is generous; she often gives more than is asked of her.

Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

#3. Just go on..and faith will soon return.

Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

#4. The more wit we have, the less satisfied we are with it.

Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

#5. What caused the gods to fall upon my family like starved lions in a Roman arena?

Vicky Alvear Shecter

#6. Gaming is the destruction of all decorum; the prince forgets at it his dignity, and the lady her modesty.

Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

#7. WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity.

Ambrose Bierce

#8. I am worn out by the insults and vexations that this work brings down on us.

Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

#9. Music that paints nothing is only noise.

Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

#10. Every age, and especially our own, stands in need of a Diogenes; but the difficulty is in finding men who have the courage to be one, and men who have the patience to endure one.

Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

#11. Don't be surprised by smart people doing bad choices! Dumb spirits seek to reborn with a better brain.

Robin Sacredfire

#12. One magnitude is said to be the limit of another magnitude when the second may approach the first within any given magnitude, however small, though the second may never exceed the magnitude it approaches.

Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

#13. Life is simply a collection of memories, but memories are like star light ... They live on Forever.

C.W. McCall

#14. My mother was good at that, making people feel normal. Safe. Like as long as she was there, nothing truly bad could happen.

Jenny Han

#15. In England it was enough that Newton was the greatest mathematican of his century; in France he would have been expected to be agreeable too.

Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

#16. Push on and faith will catch up with you.

Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

#17. The true system of the World has been recognized, developed and perfected ... Everything has been discussed and analysed, or at least mentioned.

Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

#18. High office, is like a pyramid; only two kinds of animals reach the summit - reptiles and eagles.

Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

#19. Good. I wouldn't want you to fall madly in love with me. That would make things very complicated when it comes to your beloved Shadow, wouldn't it? Who'd win the battle for your heart then? The servant or the king?

Michelle Rowen

#20. Pas a pas, se va luenh.
Step by step, we make our way.

Kate Mosse

#21. There are only two kinds of certain knowledge: Awareness of our own existence and the truths of mathematics.

Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

#22. Follow your heart. Then root its longing with the facts.

Gina Greenlee

#23. A philosopher is a fool who torments himself while he is alive, to be talked of after he is dead.

Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

#24. To someone who could grasp the Universe from a unified standpoint the entire creation would appear as a unique truth and necessity.

Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

#25. I believe nicotine is not addictive.

William Campbell