Dynamical Systems Quotes & Sayings

Unsentimental and heartless aren't the same. — A.M. Dellamonica

Celestial mechanics is the origin of dynamical systems, linear algebra, topology, variational calculus and symplectic geometry. — Vladimir Arnold

My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man. — S.E. Hinton

Possibly the apparent relapse they had suffered was not a fall and a cause for suffering, but a leap forward and a positive act. — Hermann Hesse

He was as indignant and irritated as if he had been served a veal cutlet with an egg perched on it. — Rex Stout

... an implicit assumption is always: what will happen next already happened (exactly or approximately) in the past. — Henk W. Broer

In the yard of the inn, Daffy Cadwaladyr introduced himself. "Short for Davyd," he said pleasantly.
The Londoner looked as if she'd never heard a sillier name in her life. — Emma Donoghue

Wherefore me behoveth needs to grant that all-thing that is done, it is well-done: for our Lord God doeth all. — Julian Of Norwich

I don't have a past, only a future." Valentina, "Goddess — Margaret Pemberton

People don't like being around despair. Our tolerance for the truly hopeless, for those who are irredeemably broken by life is strictly limited. The sob stories we like are the ones that end before we're bored. — Salman Rushdie

He drank some more wine, feeling he was about to commit a forbidden act. A transgression. For a man should never go through a woman's handbag-even the most remote tribe would adhere to that ancestral rule. — Antoine Laurain

It is no wonder lesbians love women. — Gilbert Sorrentino

We are evolving
from five-sensory humans into multisensory humans ...
The perceptions of the multi-sensory human
extend beyond physical reality
to the larger dynamical systems of which our physical reality is a part. — Gary Zukav

We ourselves are co-called non-linear dynamical systems ... I don't feel quite so pathetic when I interrupt a project to check on some obscure web site or newsgroup or derive an iota of cheer by getting rid of pocketful of change. — John Allen Paulos

Men wanted certainties, not more causes for doubt, and since the discoveries of science perplexed them with strange theories about the earth on which they walked and the bodies they inhabited, they turned with all the more zeal to the firm assurances of religion. Never — C. V. Wedgewood

Modern dynamical systems theory has a relatively short history. It begins with Poincare (of course) ... [to whom] a global understanding of the gross behavior of all solutions of the system was more important than the local behavior of particular, analytically-precise solutions. — Robert L. Devaney