Elliptic Quotes & Sayings

You all know that each title in the Chronicles has a chess theme; that's partly because of the overall design of the Chronicles themselves - the game of chess as an analogue of the game of life. — Dorothy Dunnett

Love if it existed
was something separate: another life. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

While asleep, I had an unusual experience. There was a red screen formed by flowing blood, as it were. I was observing it. Suddenly a hand began to write on the screen. I became all attention. That hand wrote a number of elliptic integrals. They stuck to my mind. As soon as I woke up, I committed them to writing. — Srinivasa Ramanujan

Objective tests of managerial ability are few and far from scientific. In most cases the investor must rely upon a reputation which may or may not be deserved. — Benjamin Graham

There are an estimated 100 billion neurons residing inside the skull with an exponential amount of neural connections — Michio Kaku

Call and Tamara screamed. The car swerved, Call's hands heedless on the wheel. That made Tamara scream even harder. All the screams woke Jasper and Aaron, who added their voices to the screaming. Havoc started to bark. Throughout all the commotion, Master Rufus just floated in the center of the car, looking annoyed and - translucent. — Holly Black

When the Ramanujan function is generalized, the number 24 is replaced by the number 8. Thus the critical number for the superstring is 8 + 2, or 10. This is the origin of the tenth dimension. The string vibrates in ten dimensions because it requires these generalized Ramanujan functions in order to remain self-consistent. In other words, physicists have not the slightest understanding of why ten and 26 dimensions are singled out as the dimension of the string. It's as though there is some kind of deep numerology being manifested in these functions that no one understands. It is precisely these magic numbers appearing in the elliptic modular function that determines the dimension of space-time to be ten. — Michio Kaku

The cost of anything is the foregone alternative. — Walter Johnson

[...] The movement of the celestial bodies can be given as an example. It is not exactly circular, but elliptic; the ellipse constitutes as it were a first "specification" of the circle, by the splitting of the center into two poles or "foci" in the direction of one of the diameters which thereafter plays a special "axial" part, while at the same time all the other diameters are differentiated one from another in respect of their lengths. It may be added incidentally in this connection that, since the planets describe ellipses of which the sun occupies one of the foci, the question arises as to what the other focus corresponds to; as there is nothing corporeal actually there, there must be something belonging only to the subtle order; but that question cannot be further examined here, as it would be quite outside our subject. — Rene Guenon

I like the dark," she said. "Ain't it just like a big blue blanket wrappin' us up with comfort? — Suzanne Palmieri

It's a stinking world because it lets the young get on to the old like you done, and there's no law nor order no more. — Anthony Burgess

I predict the absolute fullness of man's operation on planet Earth by the year 2000 A.D. — Lester Sumrall

She captured the spot of my world's centre and sent me in elliptic rings about it, causing the ground beneath me to vanish and the breath of my lungs to disperse. I was a rock locked in helpless orbit. — Richard Ronald Allan

Had their physical attractions proved insufficient because she had unconsciously asked more from them than they were able to give? — Josephine Tey

Their dad was the god of thieves, but they were about a stealthy as water buffalos. — Rick Riordan

Never blame anyone for your life. You are responsible for you. — Debasish Mridha