Transfinite Quotes

#1. The fear of infinity is a form of myopia that destroys the possibility of seeing the actual infinite, even though it in its highest form has created and sustains us, and in its secondary transfinite forms occurs all around us and even inhabits our minds.

Georg Cantor

#2. The transfinite numbers are in a sense the new irrationalities [ ... they] stand or fall with the finite irrational numbers.

Georg Cantor

#3. Every transfinite consistent multiplicity, that is, every transfinite set, must have a definite aleph as its cardinal number.

Georg Cantor

#4. This relative freedom of a hero does not violate the strict specificity of the construction, just as the specificity of a mathematical formula is not violated by the presence of irrational or transfinite quantities.

Mikhail Bakhtin

#5. The unknown is very scary.

Kyle Shewfelt

#6. When he went to college he wrote me letters which I answered within four days. Each letter took at least five drafts before I thought it suitable to send to Cambridge.

Laurie Colwin

#7. For she had not yet learned to know how rich she was in the blessings which alone can make life happy.

Louisa May Alcott

#8. I always wrote little things when I was younger. My first opus was a book of poems put down in a spiral notebook at five or six, handsomely accompanied by crayon illustrations.

Nicole Krauss

#9. This is your work now, Gian had thought, strewing death about him, but only live and some day, home again, turn your hand to something better, and in Sea-john life will be good, and safe, and full of love.

Kai Ashante Wilson

#10. Ethics is for people with full bellies.

John Kessel

#11. You are my shams.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#12. Trust is a skill learned over time so that, like a well-trained athlete, one makes the right moves, usually without much reflection.

Robert C. Solomon

#13. This is fun, Matty, isn't it? Cocktail hour is intoxicating." "It is." "I made a little joke there." - Celeste.

Jessica Park

#14. I've always thought that if you work really hard at something, you can get it.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck

#15. Our home tells a story about us, so we may as well take the opportunity to make it a stylish one.

Deborah Needleman

#16. That's what friends should do. cherish the good and pretend not to notice the harmless rest.

Beth Hoffman

#17. Maybe, I am thinking, there is something hidden like this, in all of us. A small gift from the universe waiting to be discovered.

Jacqueline Woodson

#18. Take heart, Maya. As a bookseller, I assure you that prizewinning can be somewhat important for sales but rarely matters much in terms of quality.

Gabrielle Zevin

#19. As important as the civil rights movement was, I think what will rise to the top is that we left Earth in that time.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson