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Quotes About Rigor

No soy un hombre de ciencia en el sentido de que hablo de experiencia interior, no de objetos; pero, en el momento en que hablo de objetos, lo hago como los hombres de ciencia, con el rigor que es inevitable.
~ Georges Bataille
Overman is the man who grounds Being anew-in the rigor of knowledge and in the grand style of creation.
~ Martin Heidegger
Overman is the man who grounds Being anew-in the rigor of knowledge and in the grand style of creation.
~ Martin Heidegger
The trees were still green, the sky still blue, which counted for something. So they went ahead and plugged their smelly paradise - God's Own Country they called it in their brochures - because they knew, those clever Hotel People, that smelliness, like other peoples' poverty, was merely a matter of getting used to. A question of discipline. Of Rigor and Air-conditioning. Nothing more.
~ Arundhati Roy
So they went ahead and plugged their smelly paradise— God's Own Country they called it in their brochures—because they knew, those clever Hotel People, that smelliness, like other peoples' poverty, was merely a matter of getting used to. A question of discipline. Of Rigor and Air-conditioning. Nothing more.
~ Arundhati Roy
If we were committing an injustice, we ought to think about it, and decide if it was necessary and inevitable, or if it was only the result of taking the easy way out, of laziness, of a lack of thought. It was a question of rigor. I knew that these decisions were made at a much higher level than our own; still, we weren't automatons, it was important not just to obey orders, but to adhere to them; yet I was having doubts, and that troubled me. Finally
~ Jonathan Littell
It was academic rigor meeting street smarts, which Hank possessed in abundance.
~ Ben S. Bernanke
I have this ridiculous exercise regime in the summer that I do not deviate from.
~ Elin Hilderbrand
If you read Bernard Hopkins' name in the dictionary, the definition would be 'discipline.'
~ Bernard Hopkins
Rigor alone is paralytic death, but imagination alone is insanity.
~ Gregory Bateson
Most of the parts are really gone over and over and over again with Tool. It's a very composed situation. We spend weeks if not months working on all those songs. There's not much room for improvisation.
~ Danny Carey
In a more intellectually rigorous age, I wouldn't be talked about as a satirist at all. I would just be a topical comedian.
~ Rory Bremner
fastidiousness
~ Ayn Rand
Cauchy was not interested in the needs of engineers. Cauchy was interested in the truth.
~ Jordan Ellenberg
Math is a science of not being wrong about things, its techniques and habits hammered out by centuries of hard work and argument.
~ Jordan Ellenberg
Mira aquí tus plantas, pues, todo el altivo rigor de este corazón traidor que rendirse no creía, adorando, vida mía, la esclavitud de tu amor.
~ José Zorrilla
When I released my first record, I was really in the middle of having made the decision to follow the clinical psychology path, which is competitive, rigorous, and fairly conservative.
~ Autre Ne Veut
I see myself as a journalist reporting neglected stories about our past and trying to bring rigor, reason and intuition to the quest.
~ Graham Hancock
Our economic future rests on the extent to which all students, especially those who represent America's growing majority, have access to rigorous, college-preparatory classes and excellent teachers.
~ Chaka Fattah
Caltech was a meat grinder like I could never have imagined.
~ Vernon L. Smith
Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
Chapter 10 Precision and Professionalism
~ Max Boot
Q: Why bother doing proofs about programming languages? They are almost always boring if the definitions are right. A: The definitions are almost always wrong. - Anonymous
~ Benjamin C. Pierce
In basic research, intellectual rigor and sentimental freedom necessarily alternate.
~ Victor Vasarely