Music assists him in the use of harmonic and mathematical proportion.


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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
G. WILHELM LEIBNIZ
Music do I hear?Ha, ha! keep time: how sour sweet music is,When time is broke and no proportion kept...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Art is based on very clear, mathematical principles like proportion and harmony. At the same time, p...
FABIOLA GIANOTTI
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JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES
It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measure...
ORLANDO GIBBONS
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HENRY DAVID THOREAU
There is music in the beauty, and the silent note that cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of ...
THOMAS BROWNE, SR.
There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion.
THOMAS BROWNE
There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion.
THOMAS C. HALIBURTON
And sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter th...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE
Sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than th...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE
After all my years of doing instrumental music I still like just a simple instrumental song with a n...
STANLEY CLARKE
I print out the roster and use it when calling on students in class. Learning first names assists in...
JACK MATSON
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their po...
WILLIAM BLAKE
A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of an authentic democracy.
WALTER GROPIUS
"Life is like a mathematical problem you just need to use the right equation to solve it".
SMART GHOST
The Pythagoreans... were fascinated by certain specific ratios, ...The Greeks knew these as the 'gol...
GRAHAM FLEGG
Sense of beauty, perception, and the mathematical universe are all part of the same texture.
NEETI SINHA
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CHARLES CURIE
Age at first use is an important predictor of the potential for serious substance-abuse problems lat...
CHARLES CURIE
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DEL HARRIS
The benefit should be used in a way which assists people to be productive. We need to use the benefi...
TARIANA TURIA
I'm obviously attuned to pick up mathematics whenever I can see it. But in Mozart there is a lot...
MARCUS DU SAUTOY
The intelligent use of contemporary music in film has an enormous audience.
ROBERT STIGWOOD
They love watching their uncle play. They're just learning the basics of the game. They're learning ...
DEIRDRE HANLEY
The mayor assists the Council in making decisions.
LARRY DAVIS
Four turnovers. Two assists. I told him he'd have the game ball if he had taken care of the ball a l...
BO RYAN
He controlled the game. You could live with him getting 30 points, but what you don't want is 11 reb...
JARED JEFFRIES
There is only one classroom in which to learn: 1. The work of God. 2. The will of God. 3. The trustw...
ELISABETH ELLIOT
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for tre...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
If God creates a world of particles and waves, dancing in obedience to mathematical and physical law...
MARTIN GARDNER
My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectatio...
MICHAEL J. FOX
She ate--so, so good--cocooned in the harmonic dissonance of a large family, where every sound was d...
RACHEL HAUCK
Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumst...
ANDREW SOLOMON
The brain is a harmonic instrument. It vibrates to the same wavelength.
TOBA BETA
That's the most assists we've had in six games.
TIM HEALY
Of course I'm not happy with the one goal and no assists,
TUOMO RUUTU
To make harmonics scream, I first dump my Floyd Rose real quick, hit a harmonic with my left hand wh...
DIMEBAG DARRELL
Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON
Necessary truth is merely the subject-matter of mathematics, not the reward we get for doing mathema...
DAVID DEUTSCH
Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.
LAWRENCE WELK
He who assists the wicked will in time rue it.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH
There is no greater glory than to die for love.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti...
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She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S...
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Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance
MORRIS KLINE
Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live a...
KILROY J. OLDSTER
Students enjoy the thrill of solving mathematical problems and quizzes.
JAN COLLINS
Man becomes greater in proportion to knowing himself and his faculties. Let him become conscious of ...
FELIX E. SCHELLING
Even being a wideout, he is extremely physical, ... He's always trying to find someone to block. Tha...
BOB SAPP
I can sing, and speak to him in many sorts of music.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Quicksilver is used for many purposes; without it, neither silver nor brass can be properly gilt.
VITRUVIUS
Wind is a floating wave of air, whose undulation continually varies.
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Wherefore the mere practical architect is not able to assign sufficient reasons for the forms he ado...
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Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises fro...
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Economy consists in a due and proper application of the means afforded according to the ability of t...
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Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learn...
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Since, therefore, individuals as well as the public are so indebted to these writers for the benefit...
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Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of ...
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The lanes and streets of the city being set out, the choice of sites for the convenience and use of ...
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Care should be taken that all buildings are well lighted: in those of the country this point is easi...
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In setting out the walls of a city the choice of a healthy situation is of the first importance: it ...
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For an object under the eye will appear very different from the same object placed above it; in an i...
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Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.
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From the exterior face of the wall towers must be projected, from which an approaching enemy may be ...
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Proportion is that agreeable harmony between the several parts of a building, which is the result of...
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Bodies which contain a greater proportion of water than is necessary to balance the other elements, ...
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When it passes towards the east, the sun begins to have less effect upon it, and a thin line on the ...
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I, therefore, O Caesar, do not publish this work, merely prefixing my name to a treatise which of ri...
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The temple of Ceres should be in a solitary spot out of the city, to which the public are not necess...
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The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assist...
LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH
A lot of times things get blown out of proportion in a negative light, especially in the NBA, ... Bu...
KOBE BRYANT
I chose to deal with the science of cryptography. Cryptography began in mathematics. Codes were deve...
JAMES SANBORN
Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things. But to us...
ADA LOVELACE
Protesters are looking for disclosure on the destination and use of funds paid by foreign miners. We...
JOHN MEYER
Sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than th...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE
Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON
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CHRIS WEBSTER
I think if you watch out here in practice, his speed is truly remarkable. The refinement of that pos...
MIKE MARTZ
Unauthorized use of these MP3 files is really creating a problem for artists in the music community.
HILARY ROSEN
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TOMMY BROWN
The images in the gallery are not intended as illustrations of mathematical facts. They more than fu...
MATTHIAS WEBER
Heat is in proportion to the want of true knowledge
LAURENCE STERNE
I like Whistler's reference to music, the titles of his works and his conventional use of color.
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The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences d...
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We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed...
JOHN H. GROBERG
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears
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The Golden Ratio defines the squaring of a circle. Stated in mathematical terms, this says: Given a ...
MARJA DE VRIES
It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light.
LAUREN LOLA
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DEL HARRIS
No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live.
ANDREA HAIRSTON
It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in lo...
J.D. SALINGER
There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the c...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t...
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Unless you are prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridicu...
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