But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum th...eory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The dice of God are always loaded. The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you... will, balances itself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Man is fallen; nature is erect, and serves as a differential thermometer, detecting the presence or absence of the divine sentimen...t in man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Two kinds of symbol must surely be distinguished. The algebraic symbol comes naked into the world of mathematics and is clothed wi...th value by its masters. A poetic symbol--like the Rose, for Love, in Guillaume de Lorris--comes trailing clouds of glory from the real world, clouds whose shape and colour largely determine and explain its poetic use. In an equation, x and y will do as well as a and b; but the Romance of the Rose could not, without loss, be re-written as the Romance of the Onion, and if a man did not see why, we could only send him back to the real world to study roses, onions, and love, all of them still untouched by poetry, still raw.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A nation fights well in proportion to the amount of men and materials it has. And the other equation is that the individual soldie...r in that army is a more effective soldier the poorer his standard of living has been in the past.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Jail sentences have many functions, but one is surely to send a message about what our society abhors and what it values. This wee...k, the equation was twofold: female infidelity twice as bad as male abuse, the life of a woman half as valuable as that of a man. The killing of the woman taken in adultery has a long history and survives today in many cultures. One of those is our own.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A father is available to help his daughter balance both her love and her anger toward her mother, to moderate the inevitable emoti...onal extremes in the intense mother-daughter equation. With Daddy's steadying influence daughters can learn to be comfortable with healthy anger, rather than feeling that they must be eternal good girls who must at all costs conceal it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Realistic about how much one person can accomplish in a given day, women expect to have to make some trade-offs between work and f...amily. Families, however, have absorbed all the stress and strain they possibly can. The entire responsibility for accommodation is taking place on the home side of the equation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It was palpable, all that wanting: Mother wanting something more, Dad wanting something more, everyone wanting something more. Thi...s wasn't going to do for us fifties girls; we were going to have to change the equation even if it meant . . . abstaining from motherhood, because clearly that was where Mother got caught.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »