Quotes About Equivalence

Tal vez hoy nos robes la vida, pero ten en cuenta lo siguiente: ¡nosotros nos llevaremos a cambio la tuya!

Man requires, not rice or potatoes, but food; not wood or coal, but heating. In the same way, for the needs of the soul, we must recognize the different, but equivalent, sorts of satisfaction which cater for the same requirements.

Monotonie du mal : rien de nouveau, tout y est équivalent. Rien de réel, tout y est imaginaire. C'est à cause de cette monotonie que la quantité joue un si grand rôle. Beaucoup de femmes (don Juan) ou d'hommes (Célimène), etc. Condamné à la fausse infinité. C'est là l'enfer même.

The point is this: when you make even swaps, concentrate not on the importance of the objectives but on the importance of the amounts in question.

In the deceptively modest volume you are now holding, von Neumann articulates his model of computation and goes on to define the essential equivalence of the human brain and a computer. He acknowledges the apparently deep structural differences, but by applying Turing's principle of the equivalence of all computation, von Neumann envisions a strategy to understand the brain's methods as computation, to re-create those methods, and ultimately to expand its powers.

For the victim of anxiety, there is no difference between success and fiasco. His reaction to the one is the same as to the other: both trouble him equally.

It is disturbing to think that we carry our secret – our illusion – into the grave, that we have not survived the mysterious mistake that vivified our every breath, that, except for the sceptics and whores among us, all founder in falsehood because they fail to divine the equivalence, in nullity, of triumphs and truths.

In every case we receive only in proportion to what we give.

Let every Latter-day Saint give value received for everything he gets, whether it be in work, or whatever he does.

I reckon I would be able compare anything to anything else if you gave me enough time.

I haven't got a Cadillac. I've got a subway token.

He was well born, as the saying is, and that's worth as much in a man as it is in a horse, so the Widow Douglas said...

I give you sugar for sugar And salt for salt If you can't get along with me It's your own damn fault.

The practice of mindfulness aims for a still and lucid engagement with the open field of contingent events in which one's life is embedded. All events are ontologically equivalent: mind is not more "real" than matter, nor matter more "real" than mind.

As an object approaches the speed of light, its mass rises ever more quickly, so it takes more and more energy to speed it up further. It can in fact never reach the speed of light, because by then its mass would have become infinite, and by the equivalence of mass and energy, it would have taken an infinite amount of energy to get it there. For this reason, any normal object is forever confined by relativity to move at speeds slower than the speed of light.

Therefore, a human is equivalent to about fifty Harry Potter books, and a major national library can contain about five million books – or about ten trillion bits.

Two references are equal only if they reference the same object

but that was hardly a fair comparison.

If Broadway shows charge preview prices while the cast is in dress rehearsal, why should restaurants charge full price when their dining room and kitchen staffs are still practicing?

The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language.

We really don't know which ones are better until we race each other. I've got good horses, but other guys have good horses, too.

My guess is, six of one, half a dozen of the other. Crows

You have to give as good as you get.

That makes our hearts sink more than anything else, really, that the childless and the mothers are equivalent, but it must be so—that there is an exact equivalence and an equality, equal in emptiness and equal in fullness, equal in experiences had and equal in experiences lost, neither path better and neither path worse, neither more frightening or less riddled with fear.