Degenerate Singular Values

Famous quotes containing the words degenerate, singular and/or values:

    “A degenerate nobleman is like a turnip. There is nothing good of him but that which is underground.”
    —Seventeenth-century English saying.

    “mouth to mouth, the covers
    pulled over our shoulders
    we drowse as horses drowse afield,
    in accord; though the fall cold
    surrounds our warm bed, and though
    by day we are singular and often lonely.”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    “We must be physicists in order ... to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or even in contradiction to physics.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)