Quotes About Special case

The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.

As a wrestling promoter, I believe that it has to be a unique, special situation. Intergender matches should be treated on a case by case basis. If they become the norm, then I don't think it is interesting.

There were so many of us, bound together by love, in the Talamasca, and each one is a special case.

We might add here that later on the constructors had an article published in a prominent scientific journal under the title of "Recursive ?—Metafunctions in the Special Case of a Bogus Polypolice Transmogrification Conversion on an Oscillating Harmonic Field of Glass Bells and Green Gig, Kerosene Lamp on the Left to Divert Attention, Solved by Beastly Incarceration-Concatenation

A bit less obvious is the metaphor for human history, course, which refers to a path of running or flowing, as in the course of a river, a racecourse, and a headlong course. The metaphor is that A SEQUENCE OF EVENTS IS MOTION ALONG A PATHWAY, a special case of the TIME IS MOTION metaphor we met in the previous chapter.

They provided me with some real nice sympathy, with the feeling I was exceptional. I was the girl abandoned by her mother. I was the girl who kneeled on grits. What a special case I was.

Being at rest becomes merely a special case of uniform motion-it is just motion at zero speed.

The theory of the determination of wages in a free market is simply a special case of the general theory of value. Wages are the price of labour.

A special case of shifting the burden, which recurs with alarming frequency, is eroding goals. Whenever there is a gap between our goals and our current situation there are two sets of pressures: to improve the situation and to lower our goals. How these pressures are dealt with is central to the discipline of personal mastery

The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.

There is also a third kind of ghost victory that's essentially a special case of the second. It occurs when measures become the mission. This is the most destructive form of ghost victory, because it's possible to ace your measures while undermining your mission.

Goats, said Maxwell Hyde, are a special case. Mad as hatters, all of them.

The significance of this special case is obvious and needs no explanation. It is natural to conjecture that once we have a sound theory for this case, the remaining problems of justice will prove more tractable in the light of it.