As one gets older, it happens that in the morning one fails to remember the airplane trip to be taken in a few hours or the lecture scheduled for the afternoon.

Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that a large sum of elements may have properties not found in a smaller sample of them.

Today we no longer regard the universe as the cause of our own undeserved troubles but perhaps, on the contrary, as the last refuge from the mismanagement of our earthly affairs.

At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at the same time in the same hotel.

Rather than be asked to abandon one's own heritage and to adapt to the mores of the new country, one was expected to possess a treasure of foreign skills and customs that would enrich the resources of American living.

Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the overall distribution of kinds of items in a given arrangement.

As one gets older, it happens that in the morning one fails to remember the airplane trip to be taken in a few hours or the lecture scheduled for the afternoon.

When a system is considered in two different states, the difference in volume or in any other property, between the two states, depends solely upon those states themselves and not upon the manner in which the system may pass from one state to the other.

In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival.

The absurd consequences of neglecting structure but using the concept of order just the same are evident if one examines the present terminology of information theory.

The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple.

The least touchable object in the world is the eye.

Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder.

All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.

The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular.

A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each other, like the two weights pulling at the arms of a pair of scales.

The foreign accent was a promise, and indeed, all over the country, European imports added spice to the sciences, the arts, and other areas. What one had to give was not considered inferior to what one received.

In many instances, order is apprehended first of all by the senses.

Furthermore, order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order.

Order is a necessary condition for anything the human mind is to understand.

Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.

Modem science, then, maintains on the one hand that nature, both organic and inorganic, strives towards a state of order and that man's actions are governed by the same tendency.

Man's striving for order, of which art is but one manifestation, derives from a similar universal tendency throughout the organic world; it is also paralleled by, and perhaps derived from, the striving towards the state of simplest structure in physical systems.

Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.

The line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and constant change. It cannot be described by a compass, and it changes direction at every one of its points.

The clarification of visual forms and their organization in integrated patterns as well as the attribution of such forms to suitable objects is one of the most effective training grounds of the young mind.

The line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and constant change. It cannot be described by a compass and it changes direction at every one of its points.

Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that a large sum of elements may have properties not found in a smaller sample of them.

Entropy theory on the other hand is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the overall distribution of kinds of items in a given arrangement.

A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each other like the two weights pulling at the arms of a pair of scales.

No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple. In certain cultures, an overall symmetry may conceal the complexity of the work at first glance.

In the absence of sound oversight, responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system.

You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave.

I have been known to play a few rounds in my time. I'm not obsessive; I don't play in the dark, but even that's not out of the question because Stevie Wonder is also a golfer.

A man is not completely born until he is dead.

I am unobservant.

In centenarians and supercentenarians - people over 110 - you see a higher level of fecundity much later in life.

I think you end up writing things you like. I like seeing actors playing two different parts at the same time. I think it's interesting. It kind of shows you two sides of a person.

When you're acting, it's a fantasy already; maybe it's the costumes - I love it. It's so fun.

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.

I was never trained for anything.

The dogma of the Incarnation is the most dramatic thing about Christianity and indeed the most dramatic thing that ever entered the mind of man but if you tell people so they stare at you in bewilderment.

For me, making films is like being on vacation, it's a nice walk. But theatre is like mountaineering. You never know whether you're going to fall off or make it to the top.

When you understand that life is a test you realize that nothing is insignificant in your life.

I'm hopeful that Israelis can go to Ramallah whenever they want and see how the people are living.

'Come out' is so funny to me because I've never been in.

To see yourself on the big screen, you're big, you hate your voice, your vocabulary. You say the same words, you speak bad.

Lifes a dance you learn as you go sometimes you lead sometimes you follow dont worry about what you dont know.

When you love a problem, its contours, obstacles and resistances are all just part of its character.