Asymptotic Curve Quotes & Sayings

I would like to say that I'm sacrificial. But am I sacrificial enough to acknowledge the fact that I'm not? — Craig D. Lounsbrough

It is incredibly presumptive for somebody who has not yet earned his party's nomination to start speculating about vice presidents. — George W. Bush

The her that lived in her looked out through her eyes, through my eyes, and at the me that lives in me. — David Mitchell

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I should have had more faith in my talent. I think I would have gotten to achieve more, earlier, had I believed in myself. But I let other people take credit for my work. — Jerry Bruckheimer

There is part of a structure in which every species is related to every other species. And they're built up on species, like a pyramid. The simpler cell organisms, and then the more complicated ones, all the way up to the mammals and birds and so forth. We call it 'developing upward' ... The whole thing depends on every part of it. And we're taking out the stones from the pyramid. — W.S. Merwin

To live forever, die in the service of others. — Debasish Mridha

A slow nature such as Maurice's appears insensitive, for it needs time even to feel. — E. M. Forster

Public opinion reigns in society because stupidity reigns amongst the stupid. — Nicolas Chamfort

I think one of the few times I've been involved with real-life characters was the story of Marie Bonaparte. I think it's really difficult to become someone that really existed. — Catherine Deneuve

The fact is there are few more popular subjects than mathematics. Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune. — G.H. Hardy

To each individual the world will take on a different connotation of meaning-the important lies in the desire to search for an answer. — T. S. Eliot

Simulation is the situation created by any system of signs when it becomes sophisticated enough, autonomous enough, to abolish its own referent and to replace it with itself. — Jean Baudrillard

The scientist knows very well that he is approaching ultimate truth only in an asymptotic curve and is barred from ever reaching it; but at the same time he is proudly aware of being indeed able to determine whether a statement is a nearer or a less near approach to the truth. — Konrad Lorenz