Ciphers famous quotes

The introduction of the cipher 0 or the group concept was general nonsense too, and mathematics was more or less stagnating for thousands of years because nobody was around to take such childish steps...
-- Alexander Grothendieck

#Years #Groups #Ciphers

I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert Langdon thriller.
-- Dan Brown

#Ciphers #Likes #Architecture

We write our lives indeed, But in a cipher none can read, Except the author
-- Frances Ridley Havergal

#Writing #Ciphers

Bach is like an astronomer who, with the help of ciphers, finds the most wonderful stars.
-- Frederic Chopin

#Stars #Ciphers #Helping

I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
-- George Eliot

#Ciphers #Faces #Poet

Each scar's a cipher rimmed with old barbs and landmines, protecting its truth.
-- J. L. B. Smith

#Ciphers #Scar #Self Mutilation

It's no accident that Op. 111 attracts literary attention. Though it's music, it doesn't quite behave like it. It seems to be charged with meaning, to communicate in symbols, ciphers, clues.
-- Jeremy Denk

#Attention #Ciphers #Clue

Nobility of birth is like a cipher; it has no power in itself, like wealth or talent; but, it tells with all the power of a cipher when added to either of the other two.
-- John Frederick Boyes

#Two #Ciphers #Ancestry

The spiritual quality of earth: eternally pregnant and containing in its fertility the unwritten cipher of cosmic lore.
-- Lady Frieda Harris

#Spiritual #Quality #Ciphers

An enormous amount of scientific language is metaphorical. We talk about a genetic code, where code originally meant a cipher; we talk about the solar system model of the atom as though the atom were like a sun and moon and planets.
-- Steven Pinker

#Moon #Ciphers #Sun