Quotes About Singularity

All men are different. And should do everything possible to continue to be so.

Style means no shield at all. Style means no front at all. Style means ultimate naturalness. Style means one man alone with billions of men about.

In the beginning, nearly 14 billion years ago, all the space and all the matter and all the energy of the known universe was contained in a volume less than one-trillionth the size of the period that ends this sentence.

If you feed a black hole, its event horizon (that boundary beyond which light cannot escape) grows in direct proportion to its mass, which means that as a black hole's mass increases, the average density within its event horizon actually decreases. Meanwhile, as far as we can tell from our equations, the material content of a black hole has collapsed to a single point of near-infinite density at its center.

If a particle can fall into a black hole, it can come out of a white hole.

The largest black hole that could have evaporated since the big bang would have to have been smaller than an atomic nucleus.

I know I'm different and I don't fit in to any kind of generic mould.

The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.

I've known since I went to the national team when I was very young that I was a different bird.

Everyone is special in there own way, Mitya, she said softly

I believe that everyone in the world is crazy except you and me. And even you're a little bit strange.

I will never be like ordinary people. If I must be different, then let me keep that which sets me apart.

The math is unavoidable: it is an inevitable property of long-lasting exponential growth that it ends up in a singularity, a point in time when a function reaches an infinite value, making anything instantly possible.

It is not easy to be different, and even less so to be unique.

All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than any existence of mediocrity.

A genius is the one most like himself.

man who thinks he is guarding himself against prejudices [by which he means inherited moral standards and taboos] by resisting the authority of others, leaves open every avenue to singularity, vanity, self-conceit, obstinacy, and many other vices, all tending to warp the judgment.

To aim and hit, you need one eye only, and one good finger.

Being a freak isn't the same thing as having a talent.

We are remember e for the totality of our accomplishments, but we are defined by the singularity of our greatest failure. It does not matter what you have been right about, and it does not matter how often that rightness is validated by others. We are what we cannot so.

My father used to say: Every bird is one bird, and every book is one book, and every bird and every book is one thing too, under the words and the feathers. He finished with a flourish, as though the meaning of this was self-evident.

Parties, he said, bored him—such were English aristocrats before marriage with intellect had adulterated the fine singularity of their minds.

There is only one real number: one. And love, apparently, is the best exponent of this singularity.

The only real number is one, the rest are mere repetition