(107 quotes found)
“If all it takes is an infinite number of monkeys with typewriters, how come AOL haven't written any Shakespeare yet?”
Andy Dingley
“Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim, who did not die, he was a second father. He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew, or any other good old city, town, or borough, in the good old world. Some people laughed to see the alteration in him, but he let them laugh, and little heeded them; for he was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset; and knowing that such as these would be blind anyway, he thought it quite as well that they should wrinkle up their eyes in grins, as have the malady in less attractive forms. His own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him.”
Charles Dickens
“Once you can accept the universe as being something expanding into an infinite nothing which is something, wearing stripes with plaid is easy.”
Albert Einstein
“The actual infinite arises in three contexts: first when it is realized in the most complete form, in a fully independent otherworldly being, in Deo, where I call it the Absolute Infinite or simply Absolute; second when it occurs in the contingent, created world; third when the mind grasps it in abstracto as a mathematical magnitude, number or order type.”
Georg Cantor
“Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.”
Oscar Wilde
“We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.”
Zelda Fitzgerald
“What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead”
Norbert Wiener
“Anthropology holds up a great mirror to man and lets him look at himself in his infinite variety.”
Clyde Kluckhohn
“The Desire of Man being Infinite, the possession is Infinite, and himself Infinite.”
William Blake
“I found that to emerge from a personal nightmare was to enter an infinitely more pervasive public nightmare the nightmare of American hysteria, ignorance, arrogance, stupidity and belligerence; the most powerful nation the world has ever known effectively waging war against the rest of the world.”
Harold Pinter
