Quotes About Definiteness

The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.

definiteness and precision: details were not to be encountered with generalities, but with details. Nor could any progress be made, on such a subject, by merely showing that existing things were bad; it was necessary also to show how they might be made better. No great man whom we read of was qualified to do this thing except Bentham. He has done it, once and for everp .

It is better to be wrong than to be vague. In trial and error, the error is the true essential. —FREEMAN DYSON

Mathematics is the study of things that come out a certain way because there is no other way they could possibly be.

She was almost in love with him. No, that's impossible, she thought: either you are or you aren't. Love's the only thing in this world that is unequivocal. There are different kinds of love, certainly, but it's a you-do or you-don't proposition with them all. (Chapter 1)

She was almost in love with him. No, that's impossible, she thought: either you are or you aren't. Love's the only thing in this world that is unequivocal. There are different kinds of love, certainly, but it's a you-do or you-don't proposition with them all.

In math, you're either right or you're wrong.

I can't deal in ifs or in hypothetical situations. I only deal in absolutes.

Water will run by rule; the actual sun / Will scrupulously rise and set; / No little man lives in the exacting moon / And that is that, is that, is that.

But Catherine — or rather the Catherine of happy memory — had so much more. Even in her present invalid state, she enforced her hard, brilliant personality with a definiteness that reduced little Daphne to the pallor of a still-life pastel beside a strongly-coloured portrait in oils.

The person who moves with definiteness recognizes the difference between temporary defeat and failure. When plans fail he substitutes others but he does not change his purpose. He perseveres.

Anyone who submits to annoyance by things he does not want is not definite. He is a drifter.

Mind is not born as a tabula rasa. Like the body, it has its pre-established individual definiteness; namely, forms of behavior. They become manifest in the ever-recurring patterns of psychic functioning.

Generally, the youth just out of school seeks any job that can be found. He takes the first place he finds, because he has fallen into the habit of indecision. Ninety-eight out of every hundred people working for wages today, are in the positions they hold, because they lacked the definiteness

In summary, every conscious experience has five distinct and undeniable properties: each one exists for itself, is structured, informative, integrated and definite. These are the five essential hallmarks of any and all conscious experiences, from the commonplace to the exalted, from the painful to the orgiastic.

You know, when you're right, that's all you get to be.

any experience exists for itself, is structured, is the specific way it is, is one, and is definite.

It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'.

It is better to be wrong than to be vague. —Freeman Dyson

It is better to be wrong than to be vague.

Science repulses the indefinite.

At some point there was no almost.

The minute I knew I was in love was the minute when there was no question about it. -The Escalator, A Love Story

No more. There is no in between.