(98 quotes found)
“The impotence of God is infinite”
Anatole France
“If all it takes is an infinite number of monkeys with typewriters, how come AOL haven't written any Shakespeare yet?”
Andy Dingley
“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
“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
“The Desire of Man being Infinite, the possession is Infinite, and himself Infinite.”
William Blake
“It is infinitely easier to criticize than to create.”
John McCormick
“'Progress never defines its ultimate objective but thrusts its victims at once into an infinite series,' Mr. [John Crowe] Ransom said' 'Industrialism,' he declared, 'is rightfully a menial, of almost miraculous cunning, but no intelligence; it needs to be strongly governed, or it will destroy the economy of the household. Only a community of tough conservative habit can master it.”
Richard Weaver
“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
“It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her took on a sheen, like perfect caramel.”
David Leavitt
“Anthropology holds up a great mirror to man and lets him look at himself in his infinite variety.”
Clyde Kluckhohn
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