Finite Quotes

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And introduce an element of cynicism and darkness into it and just realize that we`re all vulnerable. We are humans. There is a finite end to this life and we`re all going to face it and a little silliness can help.

- Alan Thicke

Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought-- particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.

- Woody Allen

How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?

- Woody Allen

I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don`t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

- Buzz Aldrin

Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. ...The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive.

- Frank Herbert

We`ve all got the disease - the disease of being finite. Death is the basis of all horror.

- David Cronenberg

There isn`t a middle argument. It`s a finite resource. The only debate should be over when we peak.

- Matthew Simmons

There`s this very vulnerable planet of ours with finite resources. Architects and designers have, I think, a fair responsibility for conserving energy and materials, and making things durable.

- Robin Day

Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.

- Addison Mizner

Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man.

- Alex Garwood

A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero.

- Alex Hamilton

In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world`s goods must steadily decrease.

- Alex Hamilton

Everything that is, was, and will be, eternally IS, even the countless forms, which are finite and perishable only in their objective, not in their ideal Form.

- Alexander Alexeyev

Water is a finite resource that is essential in the advancement of agriculture, and is vital to human life.

- Alice Besterman

But as someone pointed out earlier, it is not really about fairness; it is about taking finite resources and applying them where they will have the most effect.

- Alice Hyde

Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

- Allen Hornthal

Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory.

- Andrew Popper

Bob has done a magnificent job. But we struggle with a finite number of resources. We need to eliminate the D.A.R.E. program and shift Bob to the middle schools.

- Arron Afflalo

The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite by absurdly adding to the rungs of the ladder of the finite.

- Rabindranath Tagore

There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all movement and stillness is not all stillness; where the idea and the form, the within and the without, are united; where infinite becomes finite, yet not

- Rabindranath Tagore

In the dualism of death and life there is a harmony. We know that the life of a soul, which is finite in its expression and infinite in its principle, must go through the portals of death in its journey to realize the infinite. It is death which is m

- Rabindranath Tagore

Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude

- Alfred North Whitehead

What I assert and believe to have demonstrated in this and earlier works is that following the finite there is a transfinite (which one could also call the supra-finite), that is an unbounded ascending lader of definite modes, which by their nature are not finite but infinite, but which just like the finite can be determined by well-defined and distinguishable numbers.

- Georg Cantor

The transfinite numbers are in a certain sense themselves new irrationalities and in fact in my opinion the best method of defining the finite irrational numbers is wholly disimilar to, and I might even say in priciple the same as, my method described above of introducing trasfinite numbers. One can say unconditionally: the transfinite numbers stand or fall with the finite irrational numbers; they are like each other in their innermost being; for the former like the latter are definite delimited forms or modifications of the actual infinite.

- Georg Cantor

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

- Martin Luther King