Rapidly Quotes

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Observation is so wide awake, and facts are being so rapidly added to the sum of human experience, that it appears as if the theorizer… — Henry David Thoreau
With increasing distance, our knowledge fades, and fades rapidly. Eventually, we reach the dim boundary-the utmost limits of our telescopes. There, we measure shadows, and… — Edwin Powell Hubble
Because a child of one doubles its age after the passage of a single year, it can be said to be aging rapidly. — Henry Taube
In a few hundred years, when the history of our time will be written from a long-term perspective, it is likely that the most important… — Peter Drucker
From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
One tragic example of the loss of forests and then water is found in Ethiopia. The amount of its forested land has decreased from 40… — Al Gore
What chemists took from Dalton was not new experimental laws but a new way of practicing chemistry (he himself called it the 'new system of… — Thomas Kuhn
In the world's history certain inventions and discoveries occurred of peculiar value, on account of their great efficiency in facilitating all other inventions and discoveris.… — Abraham Lincoln
I have to keep going, as there are always people on my track. I have to publish my present work as rapidly as possible in… — Ernest Rutherford
In today's rapidly changing world, the people who are not taking risk are the risk takers. — Robert Kiyosaki
Unless man can make new and original adaptations to his environment as rapidly as his science can change the environment, our culture will perish. — Carl Rogers
He spoke wistfully of a sudden leaving, a breaking of old ties, a flight into a strange world, ending in this dreary valley, and Ettie… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Pentagon's readiness and modernization problems are not due to budget cuts. The are the result of habitual modes of conduct evolved during the Cold War… — Unknown Author
Geology is rapidly taking its place as an introduction to the higher history of man. If the author has sought to exalt a favorite science,… — James Dwight Dana
I'm just a human being trying to make it in a world that is very rapidly losing it's understanding of being human. — John Trudell
When environments change, they usually do so pretty rapidly, at rates with which adaptation by natural selection would be hard put to keep up. When… — Ian Tattersall
Technology may change rapidly, but people change slowly. The principals [of design] come from understanding of people. They remain true forever. — Donald A. Norman
We simply must balance our demand for energy with our rapidly shrinking resources. By acting now we can control our future instead of letting the… — Jimmy Carter
The onset of more severe climate impacts overseas may also open up temporary opportunities, or 'policy windows.' These would allow legislators the licence to take… — John Beddington
The climate is nearing tipping points. Changes are beginning to appear and there is a potential for explosive changes, effects that would be irreversible, if… — James Hansen

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