Quotes About Circular

Mortal as I am," wrote Ptolemy, "I know that I am born for a day, but when I follow the serried multitude of the stars in their circular course, my feet no longer touch the earth; I ascend to Zeus himself to feast me on ambrosia, the food of the gods." He

It's so respectable you could put it in a Christmas circular letter.

To which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

Quentin's conversations with his parents were so circular and self-defeating, they sounded like experimental theater.

Feedback loops, echo chambers, circular reinforcement. All could play a part in escalating the utterly imaginary to the level of reality, sometimes with fatal consequences.

Why did I walk so purposefully in a straight line? Where would it take me? He went round and round and we got there all the same.

Time is a boomerang, not an arrow.

The swing of art is circular, from form to formalism, from formalism to formlessness, from formlessness to form again.

He imagined that the clock's second hand possessed awareness and knew that it was a second hand and that its job was to around and around inside a circle of numbers forever at the same slow unvarying machinelike rate...

All of the stars rotate, have orbits around the center of the galaxy, and most of them go around the center of the galaxy in nearly circular orbits. They vary a little bit from circular, but they're predominantly circular.

The reactions are primary because they are centered on the infant's body. They are circular because they form cycles of movements that repeat an interesting sensation discovered by chance.

We travel so far, and yet still, inevitably, we come back to the place where we started.

Science does not stand still, and neither does philosophy, although the latter has a tendency to walk in circles.

Motion that is circular is the deadest form of the universe." Another voice said, "Time." He knew the answer to that. Time is round.

We hold it to be true that circular reasoning is the only reasoning that is possible to finite man...We must go round and round a thing to see more of its dimensions and to know more about it, in general, unless we are larger than that which we are investigating. Unless we are larger than God we cannot reason about Him by any other way, than by a transcendental or circular argument.

circular logic is explicit in devotional biographies of religious leaders, whose biographers provide readers with various reasons for having the faith they already have in their leaders. Lives of the Saints is a Catholic example, while biographies published by Deseret Book and Bookcraft are Mormon examples.107 That is the circular logic of every world view.

You can widen the feet of a compass, but they are still attached at the top; you can spin them away from each other, but you always wind up where you started.

human beings were stupid, they circled round and around and finally came back to where they started, as if pulled back by the steady tug of an inescapable cord. But

Could she smell my breath? Could she hear my cursed circular heart beat revolving like the crime it is in my deathly chest?

Time is a pendulum. Not a river. More akin to what goes around comes around.

Much like the hands of a clock go nowhere fast, anxious thoughts run us round-and-round without taking us anywhere!

To eliminate the concept of waste means to design things-products, packaging, and systems-from the very beginning on the understanding that waste does not exist.

After exponential quantities the circular functions, sine and cosine, should be considered because they arise when imaginary quantities are involved in the exponential.

Man goes round in circles because the structure, the structure of man, is toric