Modifications Quotes

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We are completely unaware of our true nature because we identify ourselves with our body, our emotions and our thoughts, thus losing sight of our… — Jean Klein
All the acquisitions or losses wrought by nature on individuals, through the influence of the environment in which their race has long been placed, and… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
... on these expanded membranes [butterfly wings] Nature writes, as on a tablet, the story of the modifications of species, so truly do all changes… — Henry Walter Bates
"Pieces" almost always appear 'as parts' in whole processes. ... To sever a "'part" from the organized whole in which it occurs-whether it itself be… — Max Wertheimer
We may lay it down as an incontestible axiom, that, in all the operations of art and nature, nothing is created; an equal quantity of… — Antoine Lavoisier
I welcome opposing viewpoints, but I should warn you that you'll be facing off against the 2nd-place finisher at the 1981 Charleston County High-School Debate… — Stephen Colbert
It is in this mutual dependence of the functions and the aid which they reciprocally lend one another that are founded the laws which determine… — Georges Cuvier
It's time for the bully pulpit of the White House to bring the gangstas in, put them around the table and let them know that… — Maxine Waters
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
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
(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
When I'm shooting on location, you get ideas on the spot - new angles. You make not major changes but important modifications, that you can't… — Satyajit Ray
He has willed - He wills incessantly - that the modifications of the mind and those of the body shall be reciprocal. This is the… — Nicolas Malebranche

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