Boundary Condition

Famous quotes containing the words boundary condition, boundary and/or condition:

    The totality of our so-called knowledge or beliefs, from the most casual matters of geography and history to the profoundest laws of atomic physics or even of pure mathematics and logic, is a man-made fabric which impinges on experience only along the edges. Or, to change the figure, total science is like a field of force whose boundary conditions are experience.
    Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)

    “Cursed be anyone who moves a neighbor’s boundary marker.” All the people shall say, “Amen!”
    Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 27:17.

    The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.
    Willa Cather (1876–1947)