Form Quote by Alfred Russel Wallace Download Open image “Modification of form is admitted to be a matter of time” — Alfred Russel Wallace ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Form Matter Matter of time Modification Time
“We fill pre-existing forms and when we fill them change them and are changed.” — Frank Bidart Copy Share Image
For the Atma there is no time and there is no form. It is beyond time and beyond form. — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
No form remains permanently in a substance; a constant change takes place, one form is taken off and another is put on. — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Form follows function, as the architects say. With words and pictures, you can do just about anything. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Finding the form was really a very dynamic process. I went through a lot of shifting, trying to get it right. Because the writing took place over such a long time, it's hard for me to pinpoint when specific things happened, but basically the final version only materialized in the last two or so years. It was there, but it… — Danielle Dutton Copy Share
If you do not let go of thinking about forms, you will not understand what I am showing. — Masaaki Hatsumi Copy Share Image
Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly. — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
Why do some die and some live? The answer was clearly, that on the whole the best fitted live. From the effects of disease the most healthy escaped; from enemies, the strongest, swiftest, or the most cunning; from famine, the best hunters or those with the best digestion; and so on. Then it suddenly flashed upon me that this self-acting… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share
I think I have fairly heard and fairly weighed the evidence on both sides, and I remain an utter disbeliever in almost all that you consider the most sacred truths... I can see much to admire in all religions... But whether there be a God and whatever be His nature; whether we have an immortal soul or not, or whatever… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share
To expect the world to receive a new truth, or even an old truth, without challenging it, is to look for one of those… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
In less than eight years "The Origin of Species" has produced conviction in the minds of a majority of the most eminent living men… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
In one of my latest conversations with Darwin he expressed himself very gloomily on the future of humanity, on the ground that in our modern civilization natural selection had no play, and the fittest did not survive. Those who succeed in the race for wealth are by no means the best or the most intelligent, and it is notorious that… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share
If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
The Copa del Rey is a different competition. It is football in its purest form and is different from the continuity of the league. — Michael Laudrup Copy Share Image
We could form a government of national unity fighting corruption. The ordinary Afghan is sick and tired of it, because it's she or he… — Ashraf Ghani Copy Share Image
A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if you don't deal properly with ancestor spirits, then they come back and infest the living in the form of things like depression, addictive patterns, and neuroses. We in the modern West completely deny the existence of… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share
Nothing old is ever reborn but neither does it totally disappear. And that which has once been born, will always reappear in a new… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness. More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form. — Adam Zagajewski Copy Share Image
Broken by hardships, disappointments and tragedy, people can become discouraged and cynical. But lives can also be mended. Put back together well, they won't be just like they were before. Damaged pieces reassembled with a golden bonding of patience and love will help form a person into an exquisite masterpiece. It is as if people have to be broken before… — Steve Goodier Copy Share
The U.S.-Mexican border es un herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages again, the lifeblood of two worlds merging to form a third country - a border culture. — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her up, though tottering himself. He felt as if his head were filled with smoke; flashes of light slipped through his eyelids; his thoughts vanished; it seemed to him that he was performing a religious act, and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share
Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and constant aspects of truth that can be perceived by human means. And I don't mean the kind of surface beauty that fades with age, or the sort of shallow wisdom that gets lost in platitudes. True… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share
A dialogue is very important. It is a form of communication in which question and answer continue till a question is left without an answer. Thus the question is suspended between the two persons involved in this answer and question. It is like a bud with untouched blossoms . . . If the question is left totally untouched by thought,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share
I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly… — Deborah Bull Copy Share Image
