Development Quotes

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... one of the main functions of an analogy or model is to suggest extensions of the theory by considering extensions of the analogy, since… — Mary Hesse
From the point of view of the pure morphologist the recapitulation theory is an instrument of research enabling him to reconstruct probable lines of descent;… — E.S. Russell
Why it is that animals, instead of developing in a simple and straightforward way, undergo in the course of their growth a series of complicated… — Francis Maitland Balfour
It is clear, then, that the idea of a fixed method, or of a fixed theory of rationality, rests on too naive a view of… — Paul Feyerabend
That no generally applicable law of the formulation and development of hybrids has yet been successfully formulated can hardly astonish anyone who is acquainted with… — Gregor Mendel
Peace is something more than the absence of war, although some nations would be thankful for that alone today. A durable and equitable peace system… — Willy Brandt
An announcement of [Christopher] Zeeman's lecture at Northwestern University in the spring of 1977 contains a quote describing catastrophe theory as the most important development… — Stephen Smale
This example illustrates the differences in the effects which may be produced by research in pure or applied science. A research on the lines of… — Joseph John Thomson
I can see only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent… — H. A. L. Fisher
The inevitableness, the idealism, and the blessing of war, as an indispensable and stimulating law of development, must be repeatedly emphasized. — Friedrich von Bernhardi
I believe in God. In fact, I believe in a personal God who acts in and interacts with the creation. I believe that the observations… — William Daniel Phillips
Animals are our younger brothers and sisters, also on the ladder of evolution but a few rungs lower. It is an important part of our… — Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding
Neither the military might nor the economic and technological development makes a nation great. It is made great by it's citizens with Self Respect and… — Pandurang Shastri Athavale
The price of peace is righteousness. Men and nations may loudly proclaim, 'Peace, peace,' but there shall be no peace until individuals nurture in their… — Ezra Taft Benson
To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will-to-life. At the same time the man who has become a… — Albert Schweitzer
The material and the spiritual are but two parts of one universe and one truth. By overstressing one part or the other, man fails to… — Paramahansa Yogananda
You can understand other people only as much as you understand yourself and only on the level of your own being. This means you can… — P D Ouspensky
The history of harmony is the history of the development of the human ear, which has gradually assimilated, in their natural order, the successive intervals… — Nadia Boulanger
In legal parlance, that is called 'the rational person test,' ... That's where somebody else says, 'Even though we have no idea what this person… — Richard John Neuhaus
Man did not address his inquiries to the earth on which he stood until a remarkably late stage in the development of his desire for… — Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald

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