"In the course of the history of the……" — Bernhard von Cotta

"In the course of the history of the earth innumerable events have occurred one after another, causing changes of states, all with certain lasting consequences. This is the basis of our developmental law, which, in a nutshell, claims that the diversity of phenomena is a necessary consequence of the accumulation of the results of all individual occurrences happening one after another... The current state of the earth, thus, constitutes the as yet most diverse final result, which of course represents not a real but only a momentary end-point."

— Bernhard von Cotta

More Accumulation Quotes

This quote is filed under Accumulation Quotes, one of 240 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored. — David Byrne
I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere. — Noam Chomsky
The decisive step in evolution, the first step toward macroevolution, the step from one species to another, requires another evolutionary… — Richard Goldschmidt
Women, who are a majority of the peoples of the earth, are indispensable to the accumulation of the kind of… — Mahnaz Afkhami
When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is… — Cyril Connolly
Courage is only an accumulation of small steps. — Gyorgy Konrad
It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress. — Okakura Kakuzo
Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The secret to living a full life with no regrets and to staying young is to figure out what you… — William J. Clinton
We were not always 70, or rather our 70 is an accumulation of all the other ways we were. Our… — Anne Roiphe
Why should we all use our creative power....? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold… — Brenda Ueland
We live an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create the Declaration. Our… — Calvin Coolidge

See all 240 Accumulation Quotes »

"In the course of the history of the……" — Bernhard von Cotta

Related Quotes

More Accumulation Quotes