"The world is continuous, but the mind is discrete."

-- David Mumford

#Mind Quotes #World Quotes #Statistics Quotes

“Growing up in the U.S., I was certainly deeply aware of the power of American media, specifically Hollywood and television, in terms of broadcasting a particular vision of what the American experience was like. As someone coming from a war that was a preoccupation of Americans in the 1980s, it did strike me that since we were a part of that war, we should have a chance to talk about ourselves.”
“A proponent of the big bang theory, at least if he is an atheist, must believe that the matter of the universe came from nothing and by nothing.”

Source : Anthony John Patrick Kenny (1980). “The five ways: St. Thomas Aquinas' proofs of God's existence”
“I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Acting is real important to me. I love it, and it's something I care about.”
“Oslo is a city with a hidden beauty that I wanted to explore and find out if it was possible to capture the specific feeling of bicycling home from a party early in the morning just as the sun is coming up.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobility in name and in fact. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington.”
“I'm probably the worst at games. I don't really like computer games either. And when I lose, I won't go again but just say I don't want to play anymore.”
“When we speak of choice, what we mean is the ability to exercise control over ourselves and our environment. In order to choose, we must first perceive that control is possible.”

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