Regularity Quotes
82 quotes by 73 authors
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Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance…
— Lord Chesterfield
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... 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
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Short putts are missed because it is not physically possible to make the little ball travel over uncertain ground for three or four feet with…
— Walter Hagen
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Science is not a system of certain, or -established, statements; nor is it a system which steadily advances towards a state of finality... And our…
— Karl Popper
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The process of tracing regularity in any complicated, and at first sight confused, set of appearances, is necessarily tentative; we begin by making any supposition,…
— John Stuart Mill
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Choose one meditation and then put all your effort in it. That effort has to be very regular because will is created only out of…
— Rajneesh
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But just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations of intellectual processes in…
— Marvin Minsky
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The regularity with which we conclude that further advances in a particular field are impossible seems equaled only by the regularity with which events prove…
— Willis R. Whitney
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Nature, when left to universal laws, tends to produce regularity out of chaos.
— Immanuel Kant
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The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all events the firmer becomes his conviction that there is no room left by…
— Albert Einstein
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Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. He recounts the decency and…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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Without any doubt, the regularity which astronomy shows us in the movements of the comets takes place in all phenomena. The trajectory of a simple…
— Pierre-Simon Laplace
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Science gains from it [the pendulum] more than one can expect. With its huge dimensions, the apparatus presents qualities that one would try in vain…
— Leon Foucault
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There is something in such laws that takes the breath away. They are not discoveries or inventions of the human mind, but exist independently of…
— M.C. Escher
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What humans do with the language of mathematics is to describe patterns... To grow mathematically children must be exposed to a rich variety of patterns…
— Lynn Steen
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[T]he importance of piety and religion; of industry and frugality; of prudence, economy, regularity and an even government; all . . . are essential to…
— Samuel Adams
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But where only a free play of our presentational powers is to be sustained as in the case of pleasure gardens, room decoration, all sorts…
— Immanuel Kant
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The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled…
— Ernest Newman
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I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still…
— John Malkovich
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The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some…
— Edward Hoagland
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