Residual Effective Degrees

Famous quotes containing the words residual, effective and/or degrees:

    The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement. Their truth is instantly translated; its literal monument alone remains.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Gestures ..., in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
    François Rabelais (1494–1553)

    Gradually we come to admit that Shakespeare understands a greater extent and variety of human life than Dante; but that Dante understands deeper degrees of degradation and higher degrees of exaltation.
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)