"All models divide naturally...into two a priori parts: one is kinematics, whose aim is to parameterize the forms of the states of the process under consideration, and the other is dynamics, describing the evolution in time of these forms."

-- Rene Thom

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“But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware of this till she is pretty far along with it. A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer finds out what a novel is about, and the job becomes one of understanding and deepening or sharpening what is already written. That is finding the theme.”
“Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions, whereas the other colours are not....All colours arouse specific associative ideas, psychologically material or tangible, while blue suggests at most the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract.”
“Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country.”

Source : Horace Greeley (1999). “An Overland Journey from New York to San Francisco in the Summer of 1859”, p.5, U of Nebraska Press
“Of the affairs of love ... my only advice is to be honest. That's your most powerful tool to unlock a heart or gain forgiveness.”
“As long as we decline to allow sick, uninsured people to just lie down and die on the side of the road, everybody has to have insurance for the health care system to work sanely.”
“Is this how you repay my goodness--with badness?â€ cried the boy. â€œOf course,â€ said the crocodile out of the corner of his mouth. â€œThat is the way of the world.”
“I don't apologize to people who try to intimidate.”
“For youth, sexual love is whim; for the aged, luxury.”

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