"Absolute value" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... beginning and at the end of the time, t. The above formula is independent of the choice of units. If we wish t to be expressed in seconds, we must give [rho] the corresponding value ([rho] 1.058 X 10^-16). If we take [rho] as a unit we make [rho] 1, and we find the absolute value of ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 613, October 1, 1887 • Various
... we meet the spirit of Plato and the plastic genius of Greece raised to a higher plane and lit by the peculiar glory of Christianity—the conception of the soul as an absolute value. Michelangelo was thrilled by a passionate love of beauty; beauty absolute, eternal and immutable. He felt profoundly the need of salvation, and he possessed an unprecedented power of spiritual vision. In the end, added to all these things, came consuming love for a woman, love raised to the pitch ...
— The Evolution of Love • Emil Lucka
... before he was stifled in the little chapel. It was just another Conservatoire, as narrow as the old Conservatoires, and more intolerant because it was the latest comer in art. Christophe began to lose his illusions about the absolute value of a form of art or of thought. Hitherto he had always believed that great ideas bear their own light within themselves. Now he saw that ideas may change, but that men remain the same: and, in fine, nothing counted but men: ideas were ...
— Jean-Christophe, Vol. I • Romain Rolland |
