Regularity Quotes

82 quotes by 73 authors

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
... 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Nature, when left to universal laws, tends to produce regularity out of chaos. — Immanuel Kant
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
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
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
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
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
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
[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
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
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
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
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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