Insensibly Quotes
17 quotes by 14 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms.
— Charles Darwin
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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
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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
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When one side only of a story is heard and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it insensibly.
— George Washington
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Insensibly Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 17 Insensibly Quotes as follows: