Insensibly Quotes

17 quotes by 14 authors

One must believe that every living thing whatsoever must change insensibly in its organization and in its form... One must therefore never expect to find… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
When the aggregate amount of solid matter transported by rivers in a given number of centuries from a large continent, shall be reduced to arithmetical… — Charles Lyell
In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and wickedness insensibly open,… — Thomas Jefferson
The revenue of the country, levied almost insensibly to the taxpayer, goes on from year to year, increasing beyond either the interests or the prospective… — Franklin Pierce
Why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms. — Charles Darwin
It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad,… — Charles Darwin
A different image came to me a few weeks ago.The unknown thing to be known appeared to me as some stretch of earth orhard marl,… — Alexander Grothendieck
When one side only of a story is heard and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it insensibly. — George Washington
The sculptor represents the transition from one pose to another he indicates how insensibly the first glides into the second. In his work we still… — Auguste Rodin
Paleontologists ever since Darwin have been searching (largely in vain) for the sequences of insensibly graded series of fossils that would stand as examples of… — Niles Eldredge
In our own time the whole of Greece has been subject to a low birth rate and a general decrease of the population, owing to… — Polybius
Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You can find yourself insensibly twisting them round to suit your theories. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Children should learn to draw as they learn to write, and such a mystery should not be made of it. They should be encouraged, not… — William Morris Hunt
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with… — W. Somerset Maugham
But when a man suspects any wrong it sometimes happens that if he be already involved in the matter he insensibly strives to cover up… — Herman Melville
If I had been downright honest with myself, I would have seen very plainly in my heart that I did but half fancy being committed… — Herman Melville

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