“This circle may be said to display three qualities: beginning in God, it is beauty; passing into the world, it is love; and returning to unite the creation with the Creator, it is pure delight. Love, therefore, begins in beauty and ends in pure delight.”— Marsilio Ficino, amazon.com
“The highest hierarchy is transcendence; the second is ethics; and the third is execution.”— Thomas Aquinas, ccel.org
“The brain is a three-pound mass you can hold in your hand that can conceive of a universe a hundred billion light years across.”— Marian Diamond, amazon.com
“Every algorithm, no matter how complex, can be reduced to just these three operations: AND, OR, and NOT.”— Pedro Domingos, amazon.com
“The model showed that symmetry in a plotline, and a clear three-act structure, tend to indicate that readers will find a novel pleasing.”— Jodie Archer, Matthew L. Jockers, amazon.com
“People have three spiritual states. In the first they have no thought of God at all, but worship and pay service to everything else: friends and lovers, wealth and children, stones and clods. Once they gain a little knowledge and awareness, then they serve nothing but God. Yet, after learning and se…”— Jalal al-Din Rumi, amazon.com
“Try an experiment in reading: for electricity substitute the Holy Spirit, for medium read God, and for the global village of the screen understand the planet united under Rome.”— Andreas Huyssen, amazon.com
“It comes out thus — follow me, Tremens: space is God, and matter is Christ, and time is the Holy Ghost.”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com
“Within the profound and shining subsistence of the lofty Light appeared to me three circles of three colors and one magnitude, and one seemed reflected by the other, as rainbow by rainbow, and the third seemed fire breathed forth equally from the one and the other.”— Dante Alighieri, amazon.com
“Humans are trichromats, which is to say, their retinas contain three different types of receptors (called cones for their shape when viewed through a microscope) with three different pigments sensitive to three different ranges of the visible spectrum. These three pigments, conventionally labeled S(…”— Ronald N. Giere, amazon.com