Modification Quotes

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Modification of form is admitted to be a matter of time — Alfred Russel Wallace
The main activity of programming is not the origination of new independent programs, but in the integration, modification, and explanation of existing ones. — Terry Winograd
Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery. — James Mark Baldwin
Every living thing is an elaboration of a single original plan. As humans we are mere increments - each of us a musty archive of… — Bill Bryson
And as this is the obvious appearance of things, it must be admitted, till some hypothesis be discovered, which by penetrating deeper into human nature,… — David Hume
All action of Sattva, a modification of Prakriti characterised by light and happiness, is for the soul. When Sattva is free from egoism and illuminated… — Swami Vivekananda
What is the meaning of the togetherness of the perceiving mind, in that peculiar modification of perceiving which makes it perceive not a star but… — Samuel Alexander
Our creation is the modification of relationship. — Rabindranath Tagore
Software entities (classes, modules, functions, etc.) should be open for extension, but closed for modification. — Bertrand Meyer
I am a believer in change peu a` peu (little by little) since drastic changes, including lots of changes made all at once, are often… — Mireille Guiliano
I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the… — Harold H. Greene
There are two sorts of beauty; one is the result of instinct, the other of study. A combination of the two, with the resulting modifications,… — Paul Gauguin
Rights are not self-evident. They're not unalienable. They are subject to modification just like anything else. — Alan Dershowitz
We, the People of this country, have no unalienable rights... all our rights are subject to modification... the Constitution of the United States of America… — Alan Dershowitz
I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification. — Michael Pollan
(Propaganda) proceeds by psychological manipulations, character modifications, by creation of stereotypes useful when the time comes - The two great routes that this sub-propaganda takes… — Jacques Ellul
Are not all Hypotheses erroneous, in which Light is supposed to consist in Pression or Motion, propagated through a fluid Medium? For in all these… — Isaac Newton
God transforms, so to speak, this air into words, into various sounds. He makes you understand these various sounds through the modifications by which you… — Nicolas Malebranche
The transfinite numbers are in a certain sense themselves new irrationalities and in fact in my opinion the best method of defining the finite irrational… — Georg Cantor
Looking back now on the whole sexual scene we can see that our species has remained much more loyal to its basic biological urges than… — Desmond Morris

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