Famous quotes containing the words inverse, distribution and/or function:
“Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul. The spirit sports with time.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.”
—Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)
“It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)