Fluxions Quotes & Sayings

Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves. — E. M. Forster

Abide with me, fleshling, and I shall teach you to run with the fluxions. — James K. Morrow

I'd played in about four or five bands before we started up, only a couple of which did club dates. — Daisy Berkowitz

It is attention, more than any difference between minds and men.-In this is the source of poetic genius, and of the genius of discovery in science.-It was that led Newton to the invention of fluxions, and the discovery of gravitation, and Harvey to find out the circulation of the blood, and Davy to those views which laid the foundation of modern chemistry. — Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet

The Telescope, the Fluxions, the invention of Logarithms and the frenzy of multiplication, often for its own sake, that follow'd have for Emerson all been steps of an unarguable approach to God, a growing clarity,- Gravity, the pulse of time, the finite speed of Light present themselves to him as aspect of God's character. It's like becoming friendly with an erratic, powerful, potentially dangerous member of the Aristocracy. He holds no quarrel with the Creator's sovereignty, but is repeatedly appall'd at the lapses in Attention, the flaws in Design, the squand'rings of life and energy, the failures to be reasonable, or to exercise common sense,- first appall'd, then angry. We are taught,- we believe,- that it is love of the Creation which drives the Philosopher in his Studies. Emerson is driven, rather, by a passionate Resentment. — Thomas Pynchon

What would you do in life if you knew you could not fail? What would you deeply regret never risking? — Mike Rabe

i love purple and blue!!!!! — Alyson Noel

Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world. — Ambrose Bierce

I don't like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn't it sick? — Billie Joe Armstrong

And what are these fluxions? The velocities of evanescent increments. And what are these same evanescent increments? They are neither finite quantities, nor quantities infinitely small, nor yet nothing. May we not call them the ghosts of departed quantities ... ? — George Berkeley

I wanted to hate him because he was beautiful in a way I would never be. — Amy Harmon

I always thought Uncle Vanya could be a stoned masterpiece. — Vera Farmiga