#features

The methods of theoretical physics should be applicable to all those branches of thought in which the essential features are expressible with numbers. ↗

— Paul Dirac

#branches #essential #features #methods #numbers

The search for the symbolic value of phonemes, each taken as a whole, runs the risk of giving rise to ambiguous and trivial interpretations because phonemes are complex entities, bundles of different distinctive features. ↗

— Roman Jakobson

#because #complex #different #distinctive #each

The Germanic invasions destroyed neither the Mediterranean unity of the ancient world, nor what may be regarded as the truly essential features of the Roman culture as it still existed in the 5th century, at a time when there was no longer an Emperor in the West. ↗

— Henri Pirenne

#century #culture #destroyed #emperor #essential

My title is intended to suggest that the community of scientists is organized in a way which resembles certain features of a body politic and works according to economic principles similar to those by which the production of material goods is regulated. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#body #certain #community #economic #features

I have certain physical features that I favor over others. We all have our areas. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#certain #favor #features #i #others

Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#beauty #become #exposes #face #features

I like when a girl knows what she looks like and dresses to accentuate those features. ↗

— Zac Efron

#dresses #features #girl #i #knows

One thus sees that a new kind of theory is needed which drops these basic commitments and at most recovers some essential features of the older theories as abstract forms derived from a deeper reality in which what prevails in unbroken wholeness. ↗

— David Bohm

#basic #commitments #deeper #derived #drops

The cost of adding a feature isn't just the time it takes to code it. The cost also includes the addition of an obstacle to future expansion. The trick is to pick the features that don't fight each other. ↗

— John Carmack

#addition #also #code #cost #each

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#features #good #good breeding #marks #person