“I claim that many patterns of Nature are so irregular and fragmented, that, compared with Euclid - a term used in this work to denote all of standard geometry - Nature exhibits not simply a higher degree but an altogether different level of complexity ... The existence of these patterns challenges us to study these forms that Euclid leaves aside as being "formless," to investigate the morphology of the "amorphous."” DifferentFormScienceUsedTermChallengesLevelsExistenceStudyHigherDegreesStandardsClaimsPatternsComplexityGeometryExhibitsDifferent LevelsFragmentedEuclidMorphology Author:Benoit Mandelbrot
“Some critics claim to know what art has to be and do, and consider it their task to steer art along the path they have chosen. Others receive art gladly, and try to distinguish degrees of excellence.” KnowsTryingArtPathDegreesTasksClaimsExcellenceCriticsChosenSteers Author:Norbert Lynton
“There's a lot of confusion about the political ideologies of both parties [Democrats and Republicans] have switched 180 degrees in 150 years. It just too confusing. Everybody claiming Lincoln as their own. And everybody should claim Lincoln as their own, because he represents all of us, and what he did basically provided the opportunities that all of us are enjoying today.” ShouldYearsTodayPoliticalOpportunityEnjoyPartyRepublicanDegreesClaimsDemocratConfusionIdeologyConfusingPolitical Ideology Author:Steven Spielberg
“Now, as there is an infinity of possible universes in the Ideas of God, and as only one of them can exist, there must be a sufficient reason for God's choice, which determines him toward one rather than another. And this reason can be found only in the fitness, or the degrees of perfection, that these worlds contain, since each possible thing has the right to claim existence in proportion to the perfection it involves.” WorldIdeasReasonChoicesUniverseFoundExistenceDegreesPerfectionClaimsDetermineSufficientProportionInfinity Author:Gottfried Leibniz
“I cannot claim to thoroughly enjoy coaching, because it is very hard work if you are even moderately conscientious. Nevertheless it does provide a degree of satisfaction - not to mention a steady income, which is why I do it occasionally.” IfsDoeHardEnjoyHard WorkDegreesClaimsSatisfactionCoachesChessIncomeCoachingSteadyNevertheless Author:Nigel Short
“The din of politicians speechifying about the war, the faux moral posturing of opinion-makers who claim to speak in the name of 'the troops,' everything that Iraq has come to represent in the American imagination - it all melts away in the 115-degree heat. What's left is the machinery of a war that, having been called into being by civilians, no longer bears a relation to anything they say.” WarNamesLeftSpeakImaginationMoralOpinionBearsPoliticianDegreesClaimsRelationIraqHeatMakersTroopsMachineryCiviliansFaux Author:Lawrence Kaplan
“It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage and such only as he believes to be acceptable to him. This duty is precedent, both in order of time and in degree of obligation, to the claims of Civil Society.” MenBelieveOrderReligiousLibertyDutyDegreesClaimsCreatorEvery ManObligationAcceptableHomageCivil SocietyPrecedentFederalistFederalist Papers Book:Selected Writings of James Madison Source: Selected Writings of James Madison
“We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.” LibertyPracticeMilitaryDegreesClaimsHierarchyCastesCaste System Book:Essays, Speeches & Public Letters Source: Essays, Speeches & Public Letters
“In the APS (American Physical Society) it is ok to discuss whether the mass of the proton changes over time and how a multi-universe behaves, but the evidence of global warming is incontrovertible? The claim (how can you measure the average temperature of the whole earth for a whole year?) is that the temperature has changed from ~288.0 to ~288.8 degree Kelvin in about 150 years, which (if true) means to me is that the temperature has been amazingly stable, and both human health and happiness have definitely improved in this 'warming' period.'” IfsYearsHumansMeanHas BeensWholeEarthUniverseChangedPeriodsDegreesMassEvidenceClaimsClimate ChangeAverageBehaveGlobal WarmingStableTemperatureWhole YearHuman HealthChanges Over TimeProton Author:Ivar Giaever