“The actual infinite arises in three contexts: first when it is realized in the most complete form, in a fully independent otherworldly being, in Deo, where I call it the Absolute Infinite or simply Absolute; second when it occurs in the contingent, created world; third when the mind grasps it in abstracto as a mathematical magnitude, number or order type.” WorldMindFirstsFormOrderThreeNumbersTypeLogicThirdsAbsolutesInfiniteIndependentAriseCertaintyMathematicalUncertaintyReasoningMagnitudeOntologyFinite Number Author:Georg Cantor
“The first rule of economics is that there is an infinite number of desires chasing a finite number of goods, services and resources. The first rule of politics is to ignore the first rule of economics.” FirstsDesireNumbersResourcesEconomicsInfiniteGoodsChasingFiniteFinite Number Author:Thomas Sowell
“Internet TV and the move to the digital approach is quite revolutionary. TV has historically has been a broadcast medium with everybody picking from a very finite number of channels.” Has BeensMovingNumbersTvsInternetApproachMediumsRevolutionaryDigitalFiniteFinite Number Author:Bill Gates
“I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.” BelieveHumansRunningRomanceI BelieveNumbersMinesExerciseWasteSuccessful PeopleFiniteHeartbeatSuccessful BusinessFinite Number Author:Neil Armstrong
“In any finite region of space, matter can only arrange itself in a finite number of configurations, just as a deck of cards can be arranged in only finitely many different orders. If you shuffle the deck infinitely many times, the card orderings must necessarily repeat.” IfsDifferentMatterOrderSpaceNumbersCardsRepeatsRegionsFiniteDeckShuffleConfigurationDeck Of CardsFinite Number Author:Brian Greene
“We each have a finite number of heartbeats, a finite amount of time. But we have enough heartbeats and enough time to do what is important.” ImportantEnoughTimeNumbersAmountFiniteHeartbeatEnough TimeFinite Number Author:Susan L. Taylor
“Euclid manages to obtain a rigorous proof without ever dealing with infinity, by reducing the problem [of the infinitude of primes] to the study of finite numbers. This is exactly what contemporary mathematical analysis does.” DoeProblemNumbersStudyProofContemporaryManageMathematicalAnalysisInfinityFiniteReducingEuclidFinite NumberMathematical Analysis Author:Lucio Russo
“Life is not a continuous process, there's some sort of finite number of achievements that defines your life.” Life IsProcessNumbersAchievementFiniteFinite Number Author:Bill Gates
“To make our position clearer, we may formulate it in another way. Let us call a proposition which records an actual or possible observation an experiential proposition. Then we may say that it is the mark of a genuine factual proposition, not that it should be equivalent to an experiential proposition, or any finite number of experiential propositions, but simply that some experiential propositions can be deduced from it in conjunction with certain other premises without being deducible from those other premises alone.” WayShouldMayCertainNumbersRecordsPositionMarkGenuineObservationPropositionsFiniteAnother WayPremisesFactualConjunctionsFinite Number Author:A.J. Ayer
“Definitions must contain the means of reaching a decision in a finite number off steps, and existence proofs must be conducted so that the quantity in question can be calculated with any degree of accuracy.” MeanDecisionNumbersExistenceStepsDegreesDefinitionsProofReachingQuantityFiniteAccuracyFinite Number Author:Leopold Kronecker
“However unapproachable these problems may seem to us and however helpless we stand before them, we have, nevertheless, the firm conviction that their solution must follow by a finite number of purely logical processes.” MayProblemSeemsProcessNumbersSolutionsConvictionFirmLogicalNeverthelessHelplessFiniteFinite Number Author:David Hilbert
“When I was in college, for the games of that era, I was as hard core as anyone was. I wouldn't say I outgrew it, but you always have to have a finite number of addictions.” HardGamesNumbersCollegeAddictionCoreErasFiniteHard CoreFinite Number Author:Bill Gates
“I haven't seen any claim that Piraha lacks recursion, that is, that there are a finite number of sentences or sentence frames. If that's so, it would mean that the speakers of this language aren't making use of a capacity that they surely have, a normal situation; plenty of people throughout history would drown if they fall into water.” PeopleIfsMeanUseFallLanguageWaterNumbersSituationHavensNormalCapacityClaimsSentencesPlentySpeakersFiniteRecursionFinite Number Author:Noam Chomsky
“I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I'm damned if I'm going to use up mine running up and down a street.” IfsBelieveUseRunningI BelieveNumbersLordStreetsMinesHealthExerciseFitnessRunnersFiniteUp And DownHeartbeatInspirational RunningHealth And FitnessJoggingRunning MarathonPhysical ActivityPhysical ExercisePhysical FitnessHealth FitnessMotivational Cross Country RunningExercise And HealthRunning FunnyExercise HealthFitness WorkoutFunny RunningGym FitnessExercise And FitnessFunny Cross Country RunningGood ExerciseGood WorkoutFinite Number Author:Neil Armstrong
“We know that there is an infinite, and we know not its nature. As we know it to be false that numbers are finite, it is therefore true that there is a numerical infinity. But we know not of what kind; it is untrue that it is even, untrue that it is odd; for the addition of a unit does not change its nature; yet it is a number, and every number is odd or even (this certainly holds of every finite number). Thus we may quite well know that there is a God without knowing what He is.” KnowsWellsKindMayDoeGodScienceChangeNumbersKnowledgeKnowingInfiniteOddInfinityUnitsFiniteUntrueFinite Number Author:Blaise Pascal
“It is going to be necessary that everything that happens in a finite volume of space and time would have to be analyzable with a finite number of logical operations. The present theory of physics is not that way, apparently. It allows space to go down into infinitesimal distances, wavelengths to get infinitely great, terms to be summed in infinite order, and so forth; and therefore, if this proposition [that physics is computer-simulatable] is right, physical law is wrong.” IfsWayHappensLawScienceOrderTermSpaceNumbersTheoryComputerInfiniteDistancePhysicsOperationsLogicalVolumePropositionsFiniteTime And SpaceWavelengthFinite Number Author:Richard P. Feynman
“Molly Notkin often confides on the phone to Joelle van Dyne about the one tormented love of Nokin's life thus far, an erotically circumscribed G.W. Pabst scholar at New York University tortured by the neurotic compulsion that there are only a finite number of erections possible in the world at any one time and that his tumescence means e.g. the detumescence of some perhaps more deserving or tortured Third World sorghum farmer.” WorldMeanNumbersNew YorkThirdsUniversityPhonesSexualityFarmersOne TimeScholarFiniteVansCompulsionNeuroticDeservingThird WorldFinite Number Author:David Foster Wallace
“In theory, there is nothing the computer can do that the human mind can not do. The computer merely takes a finite amount of data and performs a finite number of operations upon them. The human mind can duplicate the process” MindHumansProcessCan DoNumbersTheoryAmountComputerDataOperationsHuman MindCan NotFiniteDuplicateFinite Number Book:The Complete Stories Source: The Complete Stories
“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.” FactsMightFormCertainFallNumbersOpinionDiscoveryInfiniteMethodFormerLatterIntroducingIrrationalDefiniteFiniteDefiningEpiphanyIrrationalityModificationFinite NumberIrrational Numbers Author:Georg Cantor
“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.” BelieveWellsNumbersDiscoveryInfiniteFollowingDeterminedDefinedDefiniteFiniteEpiphanyAscendingFinite Number Author:Georg Cantor