Finite Number Quotes

• Creo que cada ser humano tiene un número finito de latidos. No pienso malgastar ninguno de los míos corriendo de un lado para otro haciendo ejercicios.

  Neil Armstrong

  Correr, Creer, Ejercicio

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• It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination.

  Douglas Adams

  Amor, Vida, Relación

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, p.93, Pan Macmillan

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• Creo que el Buen Dios nos dio un número finito de latidos y que me aspen si voy a agotar los míos corriendo calle arriba y calle abajo.

  Neil Armstrong

  Fitness, Correr, Creer

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• El infinito real surge en tres contextos: primero cuando se realiza en la forma más completa, en un ser de otro mundo totalmente independiente, en Deo, donde lo llamo el Infinito Absoluto o simplemente Absoluto; segundo cuando se produce en el mundo contingente, creado; tercero cuando la mente lo capta in abstracto como una magnitud matemática, número o tipo de orden.

  Georg Cantor

  Independent, Order, Numbers

  "Mind Tools: The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality". Book by Rudy Rucker, 1987.

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• 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.

  Georg Cantor

  Believe, Numbers, Discovery

  "Understanding the Infinite". Book by Shaughan Lavine, 1994.

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• Los números transfinitos son, en cierto sentido, nuevas irracionalidades y, de hecho, en mi opinión, el mejor método para definir los números irracionales finitos es totalmente diferente, e incluso podría decir que en principio es el mismo, que mi método descrito anteriormente para introducir los números transfinitos. Se puede decir incondicionalmente: los números transfinitos están o no están con los números irracionales finitos; se parecen en su ser más íntimo; porque los primeros como los segundos son formas delimitadas o modificaciones del infinito real.

  Georg Cantor

  Fall, Numbers, Discovery

  "Understanding the Infinite". Book by Shaughan Lavine, 1994.

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• 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.

  Bill Gates

  College, Games, Numbers

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• 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.

  Noam Chomsky

  Fall, Mean, Numbers

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• 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.

  David Hilbert

  Numbers, May, Problem

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• 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.

  Leopold Kronecker

  Mean, Numbers, Decision

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• Para aclarar nuestra posición, podemos formularla de otra manera. Llamemos proposición experiencial a una proposición que registra una observación real o posible. Entonces podemos decir que es la marca de una proposición factual genuina, no que sea equivalente a una proposición experiencial, o a cualquier número finito de proposiciones experienciales, sino simplemente que algunas proposiciones experienciales puedan deducirse de ella en conjunción con ciertas otras premisas sin ser deducibles de esas otras premisas por sí solas.

  A.J. Ayer

  Numbers, May, Way

  "Language, Truth, and Logic" by A.J. Ayer, (p. 20), 1936.

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• Life is not a continuous process, there's some sort of finite number of achievements that defines your life.

  Bill Gates

  Numbers, Achievement, Life Is

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• 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.

  Lucio Russo

  Numbers, Doe, Analysis

  "La revolución olvidada: Cómo nació la ciencia en el 300 a.C. y por qué tuvo que renacer". Libro de Lucio Russo, 2004.

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• 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.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Time, Numbers, Important

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• 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.

  Thomas Sowell

  Numbers, Desire, Firsts

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• 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.

  Bill Gates

  Moving, Numbers, Tvs

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• En cualquier región finita del espacio, la materia sólo puede disponerse en un número finito de configuraciones, del mismo modo que una baraja de cartas sólo puede disponerse en un número finito de órdenes diferentes. Si se baraja el mazo infinitas veces, los ordenamientos de las cartas deben repetirse necesariamente.

  Brian Greene

  Order, Numbers, Space

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• Sabemos que existe un infinito, pero desconocemos su naturaleza. Como sabemos que es falso que los números sean finitos, es por tanto cierto que existe un infinito numérico. Pero no sabemos de qué clase; es falso que sea par, es falso que sea impar; porque la adición de una unidad no cambia su naturaleza; sin embargo, es un número, y todo número es par o impar (esto ciertamente es válido para todo número finito). Así pues, podemos saber perfectamente que existe Dios sin saber lo que es.

  Blaise Pascal

  Change, God, Knowledge

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• 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

  Isaac Asimov

  Data, Numbers, Mind

  Isaac Asimov (1990). “The Complete Stories”, Broadway Books

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• 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.

  David Foster Wallace

  New York, Mean, Numbers

  "Infinite Jest". Libro de David Foster Wallace, 1 de febrero de 1996.

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• 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.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Distance, Science, Order

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