quotes about Ciphers
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The introduction of the cipher 0 or the group concept was general nonsense too, and mathematics was more or less stagnating for thousands of years because nobody was around to take such childish steps...
-- Alexander Grothendieck -
I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert Langdon thriller.
-- Dan Brown -
We write our lives indeed, But in a cipher none can read, Except the author
-- Frances Ridley HavergalSource : Frances Ridley Havergal (1874). “Under the Surface”, p.11
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Bach is like an astronomer who, with the help of ciphers, finds the most wonderful stars.
-- Frederic Chopin -
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
-- George Eliot -
Each scar's a cipher rimmed with old barbs and landmines, protecting its truth.
-- J. L. B. Smith -
It's no accident that Op. 111 attracts literary attention. Though it's music, it doesn't quite behave like it. It seems to be charged with meaning, to communicate in symbols, ciphers, clues.
-- Jeremy Denk -
Nobility of birth is like a cipher; it has no power in itself, like wealth or talent; but, it tells with all the power of a cipher when added to either of the other two.
-- John Frederick BoyesSource : John Frederick Boyes (1859). “Life and Books: Or, Records of Thought and Reading”, p.58
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The spiritual quality of earth: eternally pregnant and containing in its fertility the unwritten cipher of cosmic lore.
-- Lady Frieda Harris -
An enormous amount of scientific language is metaphorical. We talk about a genetic code, where code originally meant a cipher; we talk about the solar system model of the atom as though the atom were like a sun and moon and planets.
-- Steven Pinker