Quotes About Irregular

SINCE EUCLIDEAN MEASUREMENTS—length, depth, thickness—failed to capture the essence of irregular shapes, Mandelbrot turned to a different idea, the idea of dimension. Dimension is a quality with a much richer life for scientists than for non-scientists.

His studies of irregular patterns in natural processes and his exploration of infinitely complex shapes had an intellectual intersection: a quality of self-similarity. Above all, fractal meant self-similar.

My career has been a bit strange. I don't think it took the normal route.

The wet years in the late 1920s were not normal.

Be reflective if you must be armed: if you carry a weapon in public service, may God bless you and keep you. But know that evils of the past involved policemen and soldiers finding themselves, one day, doing irregular things. Be ready to say no.

The train tore along with an angry, irregular rhythm.

A medida que el viejo funicular ascendía lentamente la pendiente vertiginosa, Edmond Kirsch contemplaba la cumbre irregular de la montaña.

irregularly as though it were farm land.

a regular army can only be defeated by another army. Militias or other irregular forms of military organization alone, while capable of heroic resistance, will ultimately collapse before a regular army. The collapse of a national army (almost always precipitated by a military defeat) can create an opening for a revolutionary movement. But if that movement does not create its own army the old order will reconstitute its army or a foreign power will do it for them.

The simple fact of the matter is that wars can not be won in this way. Militias can play an important role in defending the gains of a revolution, in organizing irregular warfare within a circumscribed region, and in suppressing counter-revolutionary activity within the zone of a revolution. But without a regular army of its own the revolution can not hold back the advances of an invading army.

Man hath still either toys or care: But hath no root, nor to one place is tied, but ever restless and irregular, about this earth doth run and ride. He knows he hath a home, but scarce knows where He says it is so far, that he has quite forgot how to go there.

It's the salvation as well as the punishment of human beings that when they're living irregular lives, they're able to wrap themselves in a blanket of fog so that they can't see the wretchedness of their situation.

Plus, magic just doesn't feel like a tool. Can you imagine how boring it would be if casting a spell were like turning on an electric drill? But it's not. It's irregular and beautiful. It's not an artifact, it's something else, something organic. It feels like a grown thing, not a made thing.

Life is not a set campaign, but an irregular work, and the main forces in it are not overt resolutions, but latent and half-involuntary promptings.

Some of the most interesting research that I did was about risk assessment and how ordinary citizens like me handle risk assessment and how irregular our risk assessments are.

Kugelmass, unaware of this catastrophe, had his own problems. He had not been thrust into Portnoy's Complaint , or into any other novel, for that matter. He had been projected into an old textbook, Remedial Spanish , and was running for his life over a barren, rocky terrain as the word tener (to have) - a large and hairy irregular verb - raced after him on its spindly legs.

Wherefore also finding the whole visible sphere not at rest, but moving in an irregular and disorderly fashion, out of disorder he brought order, considering that this was in every way better than the other.

With no Law to regulate their Behavior save Self-interest, though, plainly there is Nothing to prevent an irregular Militia from becoming more of a Threat to the Citizenry than the Dangers from which it offers to preserve them.

He had worked spasmodically

Jasper pointed out, "We've passed that statue seven times in the last hour." "Very popular," said Bntno. "Who don't like that statue?" "We're going in circles," said Jasper. "Not circles," said Bntno. "Irregular polygons." "Oh, come on!" complained Katie. "No," said Jasper ruefully, "he's right. Maybe a trapezoid.

Utter happiness is a fallacy. The best most of us can hope for is that occasional span of time which occurs at irregular lengths and intervals throughout our lives wherein for an all too ephemeral period, nothing in particular sucks about living.

A prímek listája a szívverés a matematikában, de mintha egy er?s koffeinkeverék szabálytalanná tenné ezt a lüktetést.

contents you have ever seen: incredibly lumpy

Too many of Britain's bravest soldiers spent the war conducting irregular and self-indulgent activities of questionable strategic value.