Anne Morrow Lindbergh

What a circus act we women perform every day of our lives. Look at us. We run a tightrope daily, balancing a pile of books on the head. Baby-carriage, parasol, kitchen chair, still under control. Steady now! This is not the life of simplicity but the life of multiplicity that the wise men warn us of.

American Writer

Imran Amed

I focus on projects I am passionate about and only work with people I respect. Without these supportive teams, partners and clients, I could never work on so many things. I am fortunate that they see the value in the multiplicity of my work and how it all comes together in a kind of virtuous cycle.

Canadian Editor

Clint Smith

The beauty of the World Cup is that while thirty-two countries get to cheer for their respective teams, the event also affirms a global pluralism - it is as much a festival of cultural multiplicity as it is a competition featuring some of the best athletes in the world.

David Puttnam

The most important thing I think teachers can do for young people is to make them inquiring, is to ensure that they know how to gather information, that they check information and they take their information from a multiplicity of sources.

British Producer

E. M. Forster

I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.

English Novelist

Jean Piaget

Before playing with his equals, the child is influenced by his parents. He is subjected from his cradle to a multiplicity of regulations, and even before language he becomes conscious of certain obligations.

Swiss Psychologist

Annie Dillard

The notion of the infinite variety of detail and the multiplicity of forms is a pleasing one; in complexity are the fringes of beauty, and in variety are generosity and exuberance.

American Author

Quintilian

The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.

Roman Educator

Saint Augustine

By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.

Saint

Isaac Newton

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

English Mathematician

Use 'multiplicity' to express a varied and complex situation or entity with many elements.

Broader Context

'Multiplicity' can refer to non-physical aspects like ideas, feelings, and possibilities.

Not Always Physical

'Multiplicity' suggests a large quantity, often to the point of being overwhelming or uncountable.

Scale Implication

When describing quantities, 'multiplicity' can be used positively or negatively, depending on context.

Positively or Negatively

'Multiplicity' stresses the numerous ways elements can be combined or arranged.

Variety of Combinations

Use 'multiplicity' to describe creative complexity, like in art, music, or cuisine.

Creativity and Multiplicity

'Multiplicity' in math specifically refers to the frequency a value occurs as a solution.

Mathematical Specificity

In math, 'multiplicity' doesn't state the value itself, but how often it appears as a solution.

Not a Value

 Anyway, but I guess my point is that all of these enterprises are engaging to me in their multiplicity, but as I've presented them to you today, they're actually solitary enterprises, and so pretty soon I want to commune with other people, and so I'm delighted that in fact I get to compose works for them.

The mad scientist of...

 We as humans are not merely the shape of body that we occupy or the specific description of behavior. We're a multiplicity of stories, stories that often come in repetitive patterns that can be rewritten and reread. Having been raised by screens

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 It's about having possibility models, and having hope that love is part of our inheritance in this world, too. The possibility that we are practicing is about reinventing time, love and institutions. We are creating a future of multiplicity.

A queer vision of love...

 and a ruler to make lines within them. And from these simple tools emerges a kaleidoscope multiplicity of patterns. So how does that work? Well, everything starts with a circle. The first major decision is how will you divide it up?

The complex geometry of...

 But I really hope that they will find that their multiplicity is going to open and create a lot of doors for them in their lives, and that they can use this as a way to find commonality in a world that's increasingly global today.

The power of diversity...

 hard now what about smarts though we have an audience here that has a multiplicity of degrees and we build GPA track records smarts is so much more than book IQ smarts of course book IQ can help but in and of itself it is

What is your entrepreneur...

 start having direct influences on architecture, on the elements that make up the broader scheme, the buildings themselves, and start guiding us. Architecture for me has been an investigation of a multiplicity of forces

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 to make very big honeycomb structures it's exploration right it's building machines to take you further and further out into space and further and further back in time to find you know the multiplicity of things that

Go Inside a Telescope...

 And there will be and should be those who spend a lifetime pursuing a very highly defined area of inquiry. But this single-mindedness will not yield the flexibilities of mind, the multiplicity of perspectives,

Liz Coleman's call to...

 they strongly, strongly dislike plurality. They cannot deal with multiplicity. Adorno used to say, "Intolerance of ambiguity is the sign of an authoritarian personality."

Multiplicity

The state of having many parts or types.

A large number.

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The state of being combined in many different ways.

In math, the number of times a certain value occurs.

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