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Quotes About Convergence

As the different streams having their sources in different places all mingle their water in the sea, so, O Lord, the different paths which men take through different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to Thee." The
~ Swami Vivekananda
As the different streams having their sources in different places all mingle their water in the sea, so, O Lord, the different paths which men take through different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to Thee
~ Swami Vivekananda
Les perceptions sont souvent divergentes alors que les attentes et les espoirs sont similaires.
~ Tariq Ramadan
The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.
~ James Cash Penney
Spiders can tell from the vibrations what sort of insect they have caught, and home in on it. There is a reason why the webs are radial, and the spider plants itself at the convergence of the radii. The strands are an extension of its nervous system. Information propagates down the gossamer and into the spider, where it is processed by some kind of internal Turing machine.
~ Neal Stephenson
We're like meridians, all beginning and ending in the same place. We spread out from the beginning and go our separate ways, over seas and mountains and islands and deserts, each telling our own story, as different as they could possibly be. But in the end we all converge and our ends are as much the same as our beginnings.
~ Neal Stephenson
Birth and death, Chet said. The poles of human existence. We're like meridians, all beginning and ending in the same place. We spread out from the beginning and go our separate ways, over seas and mountains and islands and deserts, each telling our own story, as different as they could possibly be. But in the end we all converge and our ends are as much the same as our beginnings.
~ Neal Stephenson
Like two arms of a snowflake, Mind and Matter grew out of a common center—and even though they grew independently and without communicating—each developing according to its own internal rules—nevertheless they grew in perfect harmony, and share the same shape and structure.
~ Neal Stephenson
Tutte le strade conducono a Roma. All roads lead to Rome.
~ Nelson DeMille
The striking thing is that the transatlantic divergence in working patterns has coincided almost exactly with a comparable convergence in religiosity. Europeans not only work less; they also pray less – and believe less.
~ Niall Ferguson
The things that converge in the writing of a play come from a complex of motives, a genesis shrouded in a certain kind of mystery.
~ Athol Fugard
Finding the spoor from an act of cruelty, and trying to perceive the fading traces that lead away from it, following the dispersal of the participants rather than their convergence.
~ Christopher Fowler
Christopher Paolini
~ CONVERGENCE
Dov'è che due treni che s'incrociano non ripartono entrambi dopo essere arrivati?
~ Umberto Eco
Destiny, with its mysterious and fatal patience, was slowly bringing these two beings near each other, fully charged and all languishing with the stormy electricities of passion.
~ Victor Hugo
A thousand things might have stopped me from being here right now, but instead, a thousand things brought me here.
~ Laini Taylor
Walking through, Karou experienced it all in a rush of old and new experience that was like the convergence of two swift rivers: Madrigal's memory and Karou's marvel, merging at every step.
~ Laini Taylor
Magnets collide, and swiftly align.
~ Laini Taylor
The apex of mathematical achievement occurs when two or more fields which were thought to be entirely unrelated turn out to be closely intertwined. Mathematicians have never decided whether they should feel excited or upset by such events.
~ Gian-Carlo Rota
Today, all arrows point toward the biotech, nanotech, and information technology industries, and the convergence among them.
~ Jack Welch
the pattern appears so ethereally, that it is hard to remember that the shape is an attractor. It is not just any trajectory of a dynamical system. It is the trajectory toward which all other trajectories converge.
~ James Gleick
A bird cannot fly upward if each wing is flapping in a different direction.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The global policy shift toward neo-liberalism that took place during the 1980s and 1990s was supposed, according to its proponents, to bring a convergence of living standards of richer and poorer nations. This never actually happened.
~ Noreena Hertz
The most fruitful areas for the growth of the sciences were those which had been neglected as a no-man's land between the various established fields.
~ Norbert Wiener