Quotes About Continuum

The voice, for its part, has the peculiarity that when released it carries the weight of the body from which it has come; since that weight is erotic reality, lovers believe they can embrace words of love, they believe they can make them into a continuum of love that will last forever.

If there is as a continuum from self-reproducing molecules, such as DNA, to microbes, and an evolutionary sequence continuum from microbes to humans, why should we imagine that continuum to stop at humans?

Into the dark matter I will disappear But still I go deeper into the labyrinth I don't know if it is the labyrinth of the continuum Who, what, is it that I leave to you?

In friendships . . . the requisits are always the same. Each provides the other with a refuge in time of trouble, with a continuum to fall back on in time of self-doubt, with an underpinning of earned trust upon which it is possible to build new achievements.

the editor who understands continuum of movement has an additional tool to manipulate the intensity of scenes and sequences.

Four hundred years is but a moment in 10,000 years. Time is curved, time is braided. Throw out your clocks.

I'm no longer the young woman I was playing before, and I'm in a profession where that continuum that is me is irrelevant to most people - they're meeting me for the first time, seeing me for the first time, and they're seeing an old woman, so that's what I've got to start being.

When we look at social media, we really look at it on a continuum, and the continuum is from accumulation to instant expression.

With mental health, it's not like there's a box where you're healthy and another box where you've got a mental illness. You try to stay at the healthy end of the continuum, and watch as you move, and I've been able to do that.

I am not a beginning. I am not an end. I am a link in a chain.

Berkeley was unable to appreciate that mathematics was not concerned with a world of "real" sense impressions. In much the same manner today some philosophers criticize the mathematical conceptions of infinity and continuum, failing to realize that since mathematics deals with relations rather than with physical existence, its criterion of truth is inner consistency rather than plausibility in the light of sense perception of intuition.

talvez el tiempo no pasa, sino que nosotros pasamos a través del tiempo; tal vez el espacio está lleno de presencias de todas las épocas, como decía mi abuela, y todo lo que ha sucedido y lo que sucederá coexiste en un presente eterno.

A book feels like a thing alive in the moment, and also alive on a continuum, from the moment the thoughts about it first percolated in the writer's mind to the moment it sprang off the printing press - a lifeline that continues as someone sits with it and marvels over it, and it continues on, time after time after time.

A book feels like a thing alive in this moment, and also alive on a continuum, from the moment the thoughts about it first percolated in the writer's mind to the moment it sprang off the printing press—a lifeline that continues as someone sits with it and marvels over it, and it continues on, time after time after time. Once words and thoughts are poured into them, books are no longer just paper and ink and glue: They take on a kind of human vitality.

As far as we're concerned, we're always Sonic Youth, and we're always making a Sonic Youth record. We just see it so much more as a continuum than a periodic thing. We're just in the studio making the next record, and we don't relate it to anything other than what's going on at the moment.

Today most mathematicians accept the continuum hypothesis as true, though some study non-Cantorian transfinite numbers where the continuum hypothesis is taken to be false.)

I know that as a very young child, I was afraid of death. Many children become aware of the notion of death early and it can be a very troubling thing. We're all in this continuum: I'm this age now, and if I live long enough I'll be that age. I was 20 once, I was 10, I was 4. People who are 20 now will be 50 one day. They don't know that! They know it in the abstract, but they don't know it. I'd like them to know it, because I think it gives you compassion.

What is time anyway but a small word for a vast and inexplicable phenomenon? What are past, present, and future but vague points on an endlessly coiling thread?

Time is the thing that keeps everything from happening all at once.

In the description of matter as a collection of molecules instead of a continuum, questions related to reversibility are presented for the first time in the invention, almost as a joke, of what is now known as "Maxwell's demon".

Time is the arbitrary division of eternity.

There is an unbroken continuum from the wisdom of the body to the wisdom of the mind, from the wisdom of the individual to the wisdom of the race.

Without space, there is no time.

Mental health is a continuum, and people may fall anywhere on the spectrum.