Whether statistics be an art or a science. . . or a scientific art, we concern ourselves little. It is the basis of social and political dynamics, and affords the only secure ground on which the truth or falsehood of the theories and hypotheses of that complicated science can be brought to the test.
Perhaps the best reason for regarding mathematics as an art is not so much that it affords an outlet for creative activity as that it provides spiritual values. It puts man in touch with the highest aspirations and lofiest goals. It offers intellectual delight and the exultation of resolving the mysteries of the universe.
However deep you dig a well it affords no refuge in the time of flood.
The language of faith is crucial because it affords human beings the privilege of intimacy with the ultimate.
That good sense which nature affords us is preferable to most of the knowledge that we can acquire.
Woe to falsehood! it affords no relief to the breast, like truth; it gives us no comfort, pains him who forges it, and like an arrow directed by a god flies back and wounds the archer.
Time affords us the ability to blame past errors on others while whole heartedly pronouncing our futures successes.
The luxury of ostentation affords a much less substantial and solid gratification, than the luxury of comfort, if I may be allowed the expression.
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
Some of the pictures are truly mysterious to me. . which is why I so often say publicly that I don't know or don't care what they're really about. And yet I can also say that the paintings are prayers. . that they have to do with whatever it is that makes you want more than what daily life affords.
The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
What has always been most interesting about acting to me personally is that it affords you the chance to shift gears, both in terms of the experiences you get to have through doing it, but also the different kinds of things you get to represent.
Mathematics was born and nurtured in a cultural environment. Without the perspective which the cultural background affords, a proper appreciation of the content and state of present-day mathematics is hardly possible.
Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
A system is said to be coherent if every fact in the system is related every other fact in the system by relations that are not merely conjunctive. A deductive system affords a good example of a coherent system.
I'm enjoying the opportunity that Parks And Recreation affords me to exploit my own soapbox agenda, which is to try to encourage people to make things with their hands.
Play is the most natural method of self-healing that childhood affords.
The meaning or value of a thing consists of what it affords.
Héctor Tobar's accomplished first novel affords a perspective that is overdue and urgently needed in North American literature- -an insider's vision of L. A. as a Third World city. The Tattooed Soldier is a riveting book that manages to be at once politically informed and at the same time a psychologically astute study of that most elemental of stories: revenge.